Ministers Quotes - Page 20

• Well, Australians should speak for the national interests of Australia, and whatever role former Australian prime ministers may have, one of the things you do is speak frankly about the country as you see the country's best interests, you know?

  Paul Keating

  Country, Australia, May

  "Interview with former prime minister Paul Keating". "Lateline" with Tone Jones, www.abc.net.au. November 15, 2012.

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• You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.

  Paul Keating

  Two, Australia Day, Government

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you asked me if I'd rather be Speaker or a very senior minister, I'd say Speaker.

  John Bercow

  Senior, Ifs, Speakers

  "The Saturday interview: John Bercow" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.

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• Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog.

  Gary A. Kowalski

  Friendship, Wise, Spiritual

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• Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

  Edmund Burke

  Injustice, Fraud, Ready

  Edmund Burke (1807). “Works: 1st American from the Last London Ed”, p.282

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• I'm disrespectful towards authority. I think the prime minister of Ireland is a gobshite.

  Michael O'Leary

  Thinking, Disrespectful, Authority

  "Tthe Shallow Spcialism Of Hating Michael O'Leary" by Brendan, www.spiked-online.com. June 25, 2010.

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• Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?

  Joseph Stalin

  Evil, Division, Pope

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• The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.

  John Bercow

  Jobs, Team, Party

  "'Low-grade, sub-standard, downmarket drivel': House of Commons Speaker in angry rant at critics of him and his wife" by Tom McTague, www.mirror.co.uk. August 14, 2012.

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• As a doctor, when I was minister of health and would go somewhere, little girls would come up to me and say, 'I want to be like you one day, I want to be a doctor.' Now, they tell me, 'I want to be president just like you.' All of us can dream as big as we want.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Girl, Dream, Doctors

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• I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing.

  Tony Abbott

  Thinking, Excuse, Prime

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• I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.

  Tony Abbott

  Thinking, Australia, Listening

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• Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog. He has deep knowledge to impart. He makes friends easily and doesn't hold a grudge. He enjoys simple pleasures and takes each day as it comes. Like a true Zen master he eats when he is hungry and sleeps when he is tired. He's not hung up about sex. Best of all, he befriends me with an unconditional love that human beings would do well to imitate.

  Gary A. Kowalski

  Wise, Spiritual, Dog

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• As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Marine, Volcanoes, Opposites

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4987, Delphi Classics

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• Times have changed since a certain author was executed for murdering his publisher. They say that when the author was on the scaffold he said good-bye to the minister and to the reporters, and then he saw some publishers sitting in the front row below, and to them he did not say good-bye. He said instead, "I'll see you again."

  James M. Barrie

  Times Have Changed, Bye, Sitting

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• It's not just our job to minister to other peoples' needs. We also have to minister to their potential.

  Tommy Barnett

  Jobs, Needs

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• Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked. When I did my imitations, I could sound like someone really rough, or I could sound like a cabinet minister.

  Steve Coogan

  School, Sound, Different

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• When Gordon Brown becomes prime minister, the balance sheet that reflects his economic stewardship could look very sickly indeed. He could become Labour's biggest liability, not its most marketable asset.

  Vince Cable

  Balance, Looks, Stewardship

  "Cable calls for cuts" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2005.

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• Prayer is a walk with God....We can minister to the Lord as a group but I'll tell you one thing about it, you'll never have that intimacy of ministering to the Lord and worshiping Him with a group that you'll have in your own individual life.

  Kenneth E. Hagin

  Prayer, Groups, Intimacy

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• I think prime ministers, I actually think Cabinet ministers should be subject to intense scrutiny, I think that's in the public interest, even if some of the allegations made aren't right and so on, and they have to correct the record, it doesn't matter.

  Alexander Downer

  Thinking, Records, Matter

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Destiny, Men, Fellow Man

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2009). “Looking Forward”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.

  Alexander Downer

  Prime, Yeah, Wells

  Interview with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. September 20, 2007.

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• A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Long, Doe

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• It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Relatives And Friends, Impossible, Christ

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• The doctrine of Christ crucified is the strength of a Minister. I, for one, would not be without it for all the world.

  J. C. Ryle

  Doctrine, World, Christ

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• Yes, I don't think I shall ever become Prime Minister. Hard as that is to swallow, I tell you one person who is very happy always to see me say that, and that's my wife.

  Alexander Downer

  Thinking, Wife, Prime

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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