Ministers Quotes - Page 27

• 'Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.'

  Louise Mensch

  Kids, Fiction, Abel

  "Anything but a kept woman" by Neasa MacErlean, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2001.

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• There are times when I feel like I'm a traveling minister. I'm trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world.

  Dave Grohl

  Kids, Trying, Yards

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• I'm the finance minister of a bankrupt country!

  Yanis Varoufakis

  Country, Finance

  "Greek debt plan suffers blow as ECB cuts banks’ access to cash" by Jacquelin Magnay, www.swcs.com.au. February 6, 2015.

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• Is the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom? In strictness the answer on both points must be in the negative. The Constitution of the U. S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion. The law appointing Chaplains establishes a religious worship for the national representatives, to be performed by Ministers of religion, elected by a majority of them, and these are to be paid out of the national taxes. Does this not involve the principle of a national establishment ... ?

  James Madison

  Religious, Law, Two

  "Concerned Catholic Paul Ryan Wants Priests to Shut Up About the Poor" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. April 27, 2018.

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• When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.

  A. Scott Berg

  Sadness, Son, Men

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• Baalbek is so beautiful. It is the heart of beauty in the Middle East - I want to embrace these people with my music. I will try so hard for them. Their president is a Christian, their prime minister is a Muslim. Music is for everyone.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

  Beautiful, Christian, Heart

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• I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.

  Ami Ayalon

  Political, Entering, Want

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• As a minister, you shouldn't imagine you know better than the technical experts in your ministry. In the end you're there to apply the political stamp of approval.

  Jeroen Dijsselbloem

  Political, Experts, Ministry

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• I am the first prime minister of this country of neither English nor French origin. So I determined to bring about a Canadian citizenship that knew no hyphenated consideration....I'm very happy to be able to say that in the House of Commons today in my party we have members of Italian, Dutch, German, Scandinavian, Chinese and Ukrainian origin and they are all Canadians.

  John Diefenbaker

  Country, Party, Italian

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• There is one key area in which Zuma has made no attempt at reconciliation whatsoever: criminal justice and security. The ministers of justice, defence, intelligence (now called "state security" in a throwback to both apartheid and the ANC's old Stalinist past), police and communications are all die-hard Zuma loyalists. Whatever their line functions, they will also play the role they have played so ably to date: keeping Zuma out of court - and making sure the state serves Zuma as it once did Mbeki.

  Mark Gevisser

  Communication, Past, Play

  "Can Zuma hold a nation together?" by Mark Gevisser, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2009.

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• Imagine a State occasion where the Queen is wearing trainers with her tiara because she thinks it will make people like her better, more folksy. It's unthinkable. But that's patently the thought process Gordon Brown (or his spin doctor) went through before the Prime Minister appeared on the world stage in Beijing without his suit and tie.

  Peter York

  Queens, Thinking, Ties

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• I am absolutely sure to be the most democratic man to ever become Prime Minister in Italy.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Men, Prime, Democratic

  ASCA Article, January 25, 2002.

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• The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Brain, Church, Poor

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.235

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• Maybe it'll move around, who knows?-So it can minister to different parts of the World! If it can float down from Outer Space from God out of Heaven to the Earth, then it probably can still float around the Earth and hover here or there or set down here or there. After all, it's only 1500 miles square and 1500 miles high!-With God, a city like that can just float around!

  David Berg

  Moving, Cities, Space

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• People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.

  Leonard Sweet

  People, Environmental, Church

  Leonard Sweet (2001). “SoulTsunami: Sink Or Swim in New Millennium Culture”, p.351, Zondervan

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• I think it might be better to have the President sort of like the King of England - or the Queen - and have the real business of the presidency conducted by ... a city manager-type, a Prime Minister, somebody who's directly answerable to Congress, rather than a person who moves all his friends into the White House and does whatever he wants for four years.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Queens, Kings, Real

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I'm very proud to be the prime minister of all of Israel's citizens, Arabs and Jews alike.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Citizens, Proud

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Public Opinion, Found, Knows

  Sain in the Chamber of Peers in 1821. "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", p. 570, 1922.

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• I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create a living religion in landscape painting.

  Christopher Pearse Cranch

  Men, Landscape Painting, Calling

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• Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal.

  William Shakespeare

  Strength, Wind, Loyal

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• Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away. Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids!

  William Cowper

  Sports, Country, Mad

  William Cowper, James Sambrook (2016). “William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems”, p.156, Routledge

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• At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.

  Alexander Pope

  Long, Sun, Corruption

  Alexander Pope (1856). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.26

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• The angels minister to God's servants in time of hardship and danger.

  Billy Graham

  Angel, Hardship, Danger

  Billy Graham (2009). “Graham 2in1 (Angels/Peace With God)”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Every minister, lecturer and public speaker know the discouragement of pouring himself of herself out to an audience and not receiving a single ripple of appreciative comment.

  Dale Carnegie

  Receiving, Pouring, Discouragement

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.34, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Now you may do it badly, you may do it well, some people like you, some people hate you, all the rest of it - but you have got a real motivating life purpose. [on being Prime Minister

  Tony Blair

  Hate, Real, People

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