Ministers Quotes - Page 18

• When people are unsettled, loyal ministers arise.

  Laozi

  People, Taoism, Loyal

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• Supposing Catherine Lim was writing about me and not the prime minister... She would not dare, right? Because my posture, my response has been such that nobody doubts that if you take me on, I will put on knuckle-dusters and catch you in a cul de sac... Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no other way you can govern a Chinese society.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Hurt, Writing, Thinking

  "Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and His Ideas". Book by Fook Kwang Han, Sumiko Tan, and Warren Fernandez, 1998.

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• If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in charge of a machine gun unit, that's a very tricky business. We've got to know his background... I'm saying these things because they are real, and if I don't think that, and I think even if today the Prime Minister doesn't think carefully about this, we could have a tragedy.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Religious, Real, Thinking

  Straits Times, September 19, 1999.

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• The richest persons in Africa are heads of state, governors and ministers. So every 'educated' African who wants to be rich - and there is nothing wrong with wanting to be rich - heads straight into government or politics.

  George Ayittey

  Government, Want, Rich

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• When Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar was asked why there was so much animosity in her country towards the United States, she gave a one-word answer: “drones.”

  Medea Benjamin

  Country, United States, Drones

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• A good rant is cathartic. Ranting is what keeps me sane.
  They always come from a different place. Take the prime minister, for example. Sometimes when I rant about him, I am angry; other times, I am just severely annoyed-it's an important distinction.

  Rick Mercer

  Annoyed, Important, Example

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• My pet-sitting day ends around sunset, and it's very satisfying to know that I've made several living beings happy that day. That I left their food bowls sparkling clean and fresh water in their water bowls. That I brushed them so their coats shined, and played with them until all our hearts were beating faster. That I kissed them goodbye and left them with their tails wagging or flipping or at least raised in a happy kind of way. That's a heck of a lot more than any president, pope, prime minister, or potentate can say, and I wouldn't switch places with any of them.

  Blaize Clement

  Goodbye, Sunset, Heart

  Blaize Clement (2009). “Cat Sitter on a Hot Tin Roof: A Dixie Hemingway Mystery”, p.32, Macmillan

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• I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?

  Pierre Loti

  Determination, Prayer, Vow

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• Up to this moment I have been pleased to entrust the government of my affairs to the late Cardinal. It is now time that I govern them myself. You [secretaries and ministers of state] will assist me with your counsels when I ask for them. I request and order you to seal no orders except by my command, . . . I order you not to sign anything, not even a passport . . . without my command; to render account to me personally each day and to favor no one.

  Louis XIV

  Government, Order, Each Day

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• I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them.

  Shinzo Abe

  Taken, Heart, Japan

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• As prime minister, I will never make a decision that will be an injustice to Serbia and its citizens.

  Ivica Dacic

  Decision, Citizens, Injustice

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• MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, Responsibility, Power

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.164, University of Georgia Press

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• What manner of men should ministers be? They should thunder in preaching, and lighten in conversation; they should be flaming in prayer, shining in life, and burning in spirit.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Men, Shining

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 86: The Sword and the Trowel, Volume 7”, p.129, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two, your life preaches all the week. If Satan can only make a covetous minister a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating, he has ruined your ministry. Give yourselves to prayer, and get your texts, your thoughts, your words from God.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Prayer, Two, Giving

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• It is an incredibly difficult task to lead people from self-centered consumerism to being servant-hearted Christians. It is not a task for fainthearted ministers or those who don't like to get their religious robes wrinkled. But it is what the Great Commission is all about

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Religious, Self

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• The minister expressed appreciation for the offer, and our embassy in Uzbekistan will be following up in more detail with them

  Richard Boucher

  Appreciation, Uzbekistan, Details

  "U.S. offers help with Uzbek terror" by Elise Labott, www.cnn.com. May 6, 2004.

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• Ministers should be stars to give light, not clouds to obscure.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Religious

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Salt Cellars”, p.384, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Every minister worthy of the name has to walk the line between prophetic vision and spiritual sustenance, between telling people the comforting things they want to hear and challenging them with the difficult things they need to hear. In Oxford, Daddy began to feel as though all the members wanted him to do was to marry them and bury them and stay away from their souls.

  Timothy B. Tyson

  Spiritual, Names, Oxford

  Timothy B. Tyson (2007). “Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story”, p.16, Broadway Books

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• The visits Prime Minister Koizumi made to the Yasukuni Shrine, I believe, had nothing to do with approval ratings. He paid respects at the Yasukuni Shrine to pay respects to the people of Japan who fought and lost their lives for the country and to pray for the peace of their souls.

  Shinzo Abe

  Country, Believe, Approval Rating

  "Shinzo Abe Talk Asia interview". Interview With Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. April 30, 2007.

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• I always say to young fellows who consult me about the ministry, "Don't be a minister if you can help it," because if the man can help it, God never called him. But if he cannot help it, and he must preach or die, then he is the man.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Men, Ministry

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2018). “Words of Counsel: For All Leaders, Teachers, and Evangelists”, p.40, Aneko Press

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• Whether young or old, rich or poor, learned or unlearned, should presume to dispense the mysteries of Christ without the strongest of all possible reasons for doing so - the imperative, invincible call of God. No one is to show cause why he ought not to be a Minister: he is to show cause why he should be a Minister. His call to the sacred profession is not the absence of a call to any other pursuit; it is direct, immediate, powerful, to this very department of labour. He is not here because he can be nowhere else, but he is nowhere else because he must be here.

  James Henley Thornwell

  Christian, Powerful, Rich Or Poor

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• Spain's new Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero announced he will soon call back Spain's 1300 troops from Iraq - meaning the coalition of the willing is fast turning into a duet of the stubborn.

  Jon Stewart

  Iraq, Spain, Troops

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• I've reminded the prime minister-the American people, Mr. Prime Minister, over the past months that it was not always a given that the United States and America would have a close relationship.

  George W. Bush

  Past, America, People

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• Saving petrol is saving India's money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this.

  Veerappa Moily

  Country, Independent, Energy

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• I have written to Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, asking him to consider 'staggered office timings' for government offices, which will help in decongesting road traffic during peak hours.

  Veerappa Moily

  Government, Office, Asking

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