Ministers Quotes - Page 3

• The completion of the Iraqi cabinet with the appointment of three critical ministers is also confirmation of continued movement toward a just and democratic society in Iraq.

  Spencer Bachus

  Iraq, Three, Movement

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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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• The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Law, Umpires, Judging

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• A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

  Garrison Keillor

  Home, Able, Noon

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Lake Wobegon Days”, p.83, Penguin

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• Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

  Herbert Spencer

  Music, Art, Spirit

  "Essays on Education". Book by Herbert Spencer, 1861.

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• But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.

  Donald Cargill

  Stupid, Thinking, Champion

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• I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.

  Tony Campolo

  University Professors, Professors, University

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• In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.

  Tony Blair

  Downing Street, Boss, Prime

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• The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Political, Labels, Genius

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• My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

  Al Sharpton

  Thinking, Order, Ministry

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• I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.

  Shimon Peres

  Night, People, Decision

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

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• If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

  Joseph Stalin

  Peace, Airplane, Government

  "J. V. Stalin Works" Volume 2, by Joseph Stalin, Foreign Languages Publishing House, (pp. 279-94), 1953.

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• I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.

  Boris Johnson

  Redneck, Becoming, Chance

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.

  David Icke

  Thinking, People, Individuality

  Leading Edge Newspaper, July/August 1996.

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• Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.

  Alberta Hunter

  Baby, Hurt, Heart

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• An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show here ankles to to get that job?

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Jobs, Humor

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• It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Christian, Heart, Office

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.61, Harvard University Press

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• Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

  George Eliot

  Party, Literature, Cabinets

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.35, 谷月社

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• The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Kings, World Government, Order

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• If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.

  Moshe Dayan

  Fog, Defense, Lasts

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• No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Business, Educational, Needs

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• True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.

  Robert Mugabe

  Land, Cabinets

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

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• All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Love, Life, Passion

  'Love' (1800)

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• No one can love you until you love yourself, and you cannot love anyone else, until you love yourself.

  Raymond Charles Barker

  Love, Self Esteem, Self Respect

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• We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953”

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