Ministers Quotes - Page 11

• Leaving Europe in my mind wasn't the best thing; it's not the best way of having that political voice. But that's the only voice people in Britain could have. People turned out in their droves to vote, more than for prime minister. So it was huge and very divisive.

  Ruth Wilson

  Europe, Voice, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Prime Minister Modi [Narendra] is strong enough, and he's accomplished much.

  Jamie Dimon

  Strong, Enough, Prime

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• My dad was in the hood, he was a minister, and he would always put churches in the ghetto.

  Wyclef Jean

  Dad, Ghetto, Church

  Source: djbooth.net

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• I certainly think one of the really amazing things about Mr. Trump's victory is there's been an immediate - what one of my friends calls a jump-to-the-Trump in Australia. So you've got politicians of all sides looking at this amazing result in America and thinking, I'd like a bit of that. Can I have a bit of that? And so the opposition leader has been talking about immigrants stealing people's jobs. The prime minister has started talking about media elites in exactly the same terms as President-elect Trump.

  Richard Glover

  Jobs, Laughter, Thinking

  "Non-Politicians Talking Politics: Australian Radio Host Richard Glover". "Weekend Edition Saturday", www.npr.org. November 26, 2016.

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• A reporter told me it is very rare to see a woman of my age in the movies. Right! In the movies! But they have been for so long in very serious and important positions in life: scientists, prime ministers, candidates to be the president.

  Sonia Braga

  Long, Important, Age

  "Q&A: Sonia Braga plays the role of her life at 66". Associated Press Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 2, 2016.

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• Economists who studied in the '80s tend to have a pretty crude neoclassical view that's just about freeing up prices and markets, and then you'll get the growth and everybody benefits. And they'll just repeat that, because if you're a minister or a senior civil servant, you don't have time to read anything anymore. You get very fixed in your views.

  Duncan Green

  Senior, Views, Growth

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The last time I was in Japan as President of Russia was 11 years ago, if memory serves. I later visited in my capacity as Prime Minister.

  Vladimir Putin

  Memories, Russia, Japan

  Source: www.rt.com

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• I am in regular contact with Prime Minister [Shinzo] Abe. We have met several times this year [2016].

  Vladimir Putin

  Years, Prime, Mets

  Source: www.rt.com

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• However, the 1956 agreement refers to two islands while the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] is talking about four islands.

  Vladimir Putin

  Islands, Agreement, Talking

  Source: www.rt.com

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• You have made a very good point: both the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] and I enjoy a fairly high level of trust among the citizens of our countries.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Citizens, Levels

  Source: www.rt.com

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• Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] and I have spoken a lot, and we said all the right things, in my opinion, about creating an atmosphere of trust and friendship between our nations and peoples.

  Vladimir Putin

  Creating, Atmosphere, Opinion

  Source: www.rt.com

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• The Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] proposed advancing to a new level of economic engagement, putting forward eight lines of cooperation in the most important and interesting areas both for Russia and for Japan.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Eight, Japan

  Source: www.rt.com

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• [My father was ] Presbyterian [minister]. But I did not take the Bible seriously until I was forced to take Hebrew at McCormick Theological Seminary.

  Hershel Shanks

  Father, Hebrew, Theological

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I certainly will make sure that everybody understands that I'm the prime minister of all of Israel's citizens, and I really believe that. It's something that my actions have shown. It's not a question of fence-mending, it's a question of real belief, and it's there. I don't have to fabricate it.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Real, Believe, Israel

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I rang my friend Jim Wolfensohn, who was then running a private commercial bank in New York. I said, "Come up to Vancouver", and he did. I put my proposition to him. He said, "I think it could work." I said, "Will you help us?" He said, "Yes." So, I set aside senior people in our treasury and they worked with Wolfensohn and the investment sanctions were applied. And that's what brought the regime down. The last South African Finance Minister, Barend du Plessis, went on record as saying that it was the investment sanctions that put the final nail in the coffin of apartheid.

  Bob Hawke

  Senior, Running, New York

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• In fact, soon after that [South African sanctions], I was going on an official visit to the UK and Margaret Thatcher instructed every minister to clear the decks of any outstanding matters between us - Australia and the Brits. And she went out of her way to make sure that that was as successful a visit as it possibly could be.

  Bob Hawke

  Successful, Australia, Matter

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• [A.J. Muste] was from Michigan and he grew up in the Dutch Reform Church there, which is a fairly strict church. He later came to New York. He was the minister of a labor temple in the - on the East Side. Then he founded, to my knowledge, the first, maybe the only, labor school; that is, Cornell has a labor department and other schools. But this was a school for - entirely for labor organizers, and he was the - the chairman.

  Nat Hentoff

  New York, School, Church

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• We have been at the matter of police pay for some time. Indeed, the Minister of Safety and Security and the National Commissioner of Police have raised this matter. Treasury has been looking at it and the Public Service and Administration Minister has been looking at it. It is a matter with which we are engaged, the salaries issue, as well as the resource question with regard to vehicles and, and all other matters, including the skills issues.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Skills, Issues, Safety

  Source: www.gov.za

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• We differ with the Israeli Government about a number of things, and they know that. In the past, I have discussed with Prime Minister [Ariel] Sharon these issues. The fact that we differ about something or the other shouldn't be a matter of strain.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Past, Government, Numbers

  Source: www.gov.za

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• I could give examples of cabinet ministers, including defence ministers, who have no technological culture at all. In other words, what I am suggesting is that the hype generated by the publicity around the Internet and so on is not counter balanced by a political intelligence that is based on a technological culture.

  Paul Virilio

  Hype, Giving, Political

  Source: ctheory.net

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• The claim made by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán that the refugee question is a German problem is incorrect. It is a European problem.

  Martin Schulz

  Orbs, Problem, Prime

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I would say Tony Blair is very much a lapdog. I'm terribly scared that when he finally goes - and we can only hope it's soon - that he will be remembered for all these terrible things that he's done. Which is kind of a scary thing for a Labor Prime Minister.

  Thea Gilmore

  Scary, Done, Scared

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you're saying that Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu got fired up, he's been fired up repeatedly during the course of my presidency, around the Iran deal and around our consistent objection to settlements.

  Barack Obama

  Iran, Prime, Consistent

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• During a news conference, when he was standing with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President [Donald] Trump responded to a question from an Israeli reporter about the rise in anti-Semitic attacks - by boasting about his election victory.

  Amy Goodman

  Victory, President, News

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do backflips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, we put things to the side, and I was able to - I'm able to see her. She's able to see me. We love each other.

  Mahershala Ali

  Mother, Years, Able

  "In 'Moonlight,' Actor Mahershala Ali Found Characters He Recognized". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 16, 2017.

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