#minister

The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council. ↗

— David Petraeus

#could #council #difficult #during #elected

We went to Detroit. I wanted to see what was going on in some other parts of the world. You know, I was just traveling, like. I had a minister that lived here. He was in St. Louis and he said things was going so well and that it was such a wonderful place. ↗

— Charles Phillips

#going #had #here #i #just

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#best #contest #fools #forms #government

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

#clock #freezer #get #go #go home

The defence and air defence ministers were both replaced and more than 2,000 officers lost their jobs. ↗

— Mathias Rust

#both #defence #jobs #lost #ministers

My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#infrequent #ministers #nature #official #purely

In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts. ↗

— Peter Singer

#contexts #different #everyone #i #i think

The fact that I was a believer, a Christian, everybody immediately thought this guy's a minister, he's so nice and, oh by the way, he can play a little bit. The other thing for me is being undersized. What a great story, what an overachiever, kind of like Rudy. ↗

— Mike Singletary

#believer #bit #christian #everybody #fact

It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#cause #destroyed #especially #influence #manifestly

The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#any #development #few #i #india