Ministers Quotes

Political risk is hard to manage because so much comes down to the personal choices of policymakers, whether prime ministers or heads of central banks.

I just think overall there's not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preachers Kids. Be afraid.

Ordained Baptist minister; I make no apology for my faith.

I'm a Christian. I was born and raised a Catholic. But I think there are people that are frauds that are ministers.

I'm the f***ing Prime Minister!

If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign.

You know, by the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions. ... You may find you can get away with virtual presidents, virtual prime ministers, virtual everything.

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

You don't try and put rockets under prime ministers.

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.

It is quite unacceptable that a member of Dáil Éireann and in particular a Cabinet Minister and Taoiseach, should be supported in his personal lifestyle by gifts made to him personally.

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

Media people should have long noses like an elephant to smell out politicians, mayors, prime ministers and businessmen. We need to know the reality, the good and the bad, not just the appearance.

Iraqi's minister of information did not show up for his press conference today. However, he claims he was there and he said it went very well.

I am Presbyterian and Protestant. I've had great relationships and developed even greater relationships with ministers. We have tremendous support from the clergy.

Some people find it difficult to argue with a woman Prime Minister and shrivel up.

Every prime minister... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.

A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled.

I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.

Ministers have received their wages, and some have their minds too much on their wages. They labor for wages, and lose sight of the sacredness and importance of the work.

Many a husband lives to regret the extravagant fee he bestowed upon the minister who sentenced him.

Even if I know I'm going to go to a church, I don't know what the minister's going to say.

Amigo! Amigo!" (Calling out to the ITALLIAN Prime minister....)

There is really quite an inherent danger in the traditional British view that the council of ministers and inter-governmentalism is your protection against the federalist superstate.

As foreign minister I cannot allow myself to be guided by emotions.

Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry.

As ministers our greatest temptation is toward too many words. They weaken our faith and make us lukewarm. But silence is a sacred discipline, a guard of the Holy Spirit.

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

There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried into an employment that elevates or degrades it.

Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like Actaeon, torn to pieces by his own pack.

I think it's very important for Arts Ministers to purchase art, to attend art, to validate art.

Some information has to remain in the privy of the office of the Prime Minister and the ministers for the proper administration of government.

I was very happy being education minister and deputy to John Cain.

How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?

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

You don't have to be in the habit of going to church to listen to such a literary minister; you don't have to be a believer to be moved by Mr. Buechner's faith.

In my view it is better for the Labour Party, the leadership and the new prime minister that he be given the maximum flexibility.

My grandfather was one of the most amazing Baptist ministers in history, he was unbelievable. He was one of the most amazing men - the most amazing man that I ever met... He lived an amazing life.

I am entirely confident that the extraordinary women we have running for us right across Canada will make excellent cabinet ministers.

I grew up raised in church, my parents are both traveling ministers. They blocked out MTV which was fine, but I'd find myself figuring out who New Kids On The Block were.

It is a high honour to be elected Prime Minister of Australia.

When people are unsettled, loyal ministers arise.

I am not the Prime Minister of French capitalism. I am the Prime Minister of France.

I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.

Even as a Muslim minister in the Muslim movement, I have always said that I would work with any organization.

My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.

Finance ministers must realize that the health budget can save them money if it's applied well.

As a Protestant minister's son I am partial to apocalypses.

Women are secretaries of state and prime ministers - but people still don't expect women to be involved in violence.