Ministers Quotes - Page 2

• I think the Prime Minister has embarked on a journey and he has no idea where he's taking us.

  John Hewson

  Journey, Thinking, Ideas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.

  Claud Cockburn

  Hair, Duplicity, Wigs

  Claud Cockburn (1960). “Crossing the Line: Being the Second Volume of Autobiography”, Macgibbon & Kee

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• My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.

  Esther Williams

  Mother, Sunday, Training

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• The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government.

  Jack Layton

  Responsibility, Government, Criminals

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• Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.

  Kenneth Clarke

  Nursing, Prime, Grievance

  "In his own words". www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2009.

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• When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Three, Four, Prime

  "Brought to book". www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2001.

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• I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.

  Kamisese Mara

  Prime, Prime Minister

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• In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.

  Albert Speer

  Giving, Information, Armament

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• Angels and ministers of grace defend us.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Grace, Denmark In Hamlet

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 39

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• We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Couple, Politics, Sometimes

  'The Unbearable Bassington' (1912)

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• To serve as prime minister while being too mindful of the approval rating is like serving as a prime minister on a roller coaster. What is important, I believe, is that I really act on promises that I make and leave results. Leave a track record and show that to the Japanese public, who will, at the end of the day, I hope, appreciate it.

  Shinzo Abe

  Believe, Approval Rating, Track

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• Your great employment is to bring the individual souls of men to Christ.

  Edward Norris Kirk

  Men, Soul, Christ

  Edward Norris Kirk (1840). “Sermons on Different Subjects: Delivered in England and America”, p.87

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• It is not the way to convert a sinner to knock him down first and then reason with him.

  Samuel I. Prime

  Way, Firsts, Reason

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 411, 1895.

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• This is the ministry and its work--not to drill hearts and minds and consciences into right forms of thought and mental postures, but to guide to the living God who speaks.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Heart, Mind, Ministry

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.634

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• But the unfaithful priest, what tongue
  Enough, shall execrate?

  Robert Pollok

  Tongue, Unfaithful, Enough

  Robert Pollok (1857). “The Course of Time: A Poem”, p.55

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• The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable.

  Francis Atterbury

  Priesthood, Nations

  Francis Atterbury (1709). “A Sermon Preach'd Before the Sons of the Clergy, At Their Anniversary-Meeting In The Cathedral-Church of St. Paul, Dec. 6. 1709”, p.8

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• Love and meekness, lord,
  Become a churchman better than ambition:
  Win straying souls with modesty again,
  Cast none away.

  William Shakespeare

  Ambition, Winning, Soul

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Henry VIII! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.237, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The day that witnesses the conversion of our ministers into political and philosophical speculators or scientific lecturers, will witness the final decay of clerical weight and influence.

  Peter Bayne

  Philosophical, Political, Finals

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• Two famous happy warriors - Reagan and his political soulmate, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - knew they were fighting their own ideological and external wars. But they did so with the sunny dispositions and positive outlooks of those who knew they were on the right side of history.

  Monica Crowley

  Soulmate, War, Fighting

  "Monica's Manifesto". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. July 13, 2012.

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• You see, I was the son of a baptist minister.

  DeForest Kelley

  Son, Baptists

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• I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.

  Sun Ra

  Philosopher, Politician, Categories

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• Let me remind you that this is God's universe, and He is doing things His way. You may think you have a better way, but you don't have a universe to rule.

  J. Vernon McGee

  Funny, God, Christian

  "Thru the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee".

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• No, I've never truly been a minister.

  Little Richard

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• I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Long, Interesting, Political

  In Observer 27 Jan. 1980

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• Nobody has achievements like this ... you cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.

  Brian Mulroney

  Significant Things, Names, Achievement

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