#minister

I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#leave #local #long #minister #politics

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals. ↗

— Bono

#associates #commodities #corrupt #government #hoard

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#great #greatness #ignorance #impossible #make

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

— Tony Campolo

#being #i #minister #professor #serve

In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#deputy #first #government #had #i

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

#any #begins #conference #death #defend

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays. ↗

— Daphne Zuniga

#adam #bra #draft #earth #eve

If the prime minister really believes it, he must be the only person left who thinks that the recent bombs in London had no connection at all with his policy in Iraq. ↗

— Kenneth Clarke

#bombs #connection #had #his #iraq

There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#am #authority #bbc #british #chairman

I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#any #blindly #brave #brave new world #canadians