Minister Quotes - page 20

I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister. (David Blunkett)
The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill. View quote
Denis Thatcher
My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid. View quote
Dorothy Malone
Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a national shame. It is the systematic, widespread, shocking elimination of India's baby girls. Some 50,000 female fetuses are aborted every month in India. View quote
Elizabeth Vargas
I want to become foreign minister of India one day and then President of India. View quote
Farooq Abdullah
Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi looks in the mirror and sees a playboy of the old school. And men such as Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Charlie Sheen no doubt look at Berlusconi and think, 'Role model!' Women, of course, know otherwise. They see him as an aging, pathetic buffoon. View quote
Graydon Carter
It is our job to work for the government of the day and so that means working for Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, and we need to do those preparations just to be sure that we're ready for whoever you, the British public, elect and that's core to our civil service values over the last 150 years. View quote
Gus O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell
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. View quote
Gavyn Davies
As prime minister, I will never make a decision that will be an injustice to Serbia and its citizens. View quote
Ivica Dacic
You know, if you're a human and living on the planet, it doesn't matter what you do; you are not immune to the challenges, the trials, the difficulty. And that fact that I happen to be a coach and a minister and a spiritual teacher doesn't mean anything. I'm still human. View quote
Iyanla Vanzant
My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all called him - a gentleman. (Jane Pauley)
As a minister, you shouldn't imagine you know better than the technical experts in your ministry. In the end you're there to apply the political stamp of approval. View quote
Jeroen Dijsselbloem
In fact, the Iraqi foreign minister admitted in March 2003 that Iraqi funds were sent to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who attacked and killed innocent Israeli citizens, and also 12 Americans in Israel in 2003. View quote
Jim Gerlach
If you asked me if I'd rather be Speaker or a very senior minister, I'd say Speaker. View quote
John Bercow
I think the Prime Minister has embarked on a journey and he has no idea where he's taking us. View quote
John Hewson
I want to leave New Zealand in better shape than I found it. I know the job of prime minister is not forever and I'm going to do the best I can every day to make that difference. View quote
John Key
Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions. View quote
John Key
It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state. View quote
Jose Eduardo Dos Santos
I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief. View quote
Julian McMahon
Today is indeed an historic occasion when as a first chair-in-office woman I hand over to another woman chair in office, your Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in the presence of a woman head of the Commonwealth, Her Royal Highness, Her Majesty the Queen of England. View quote
Kamla Persad-Bissessar
Our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has given the Government's support to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It is difficult to imagine a single piece of legislation which, more comprehensively, attacks the sanctity and dignity of human life than this particular Bill. (Keith O'Brien)
I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy. View quote
Louise Mensch
Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals. View quote
Louise Mensch
As Minister of Foreign Affairs, I will work on deepening Haiti's links with its traditional partners from the north and the south, while exploring all the opportunities for economic, cultural, scientific and technological cooperation that may benefit my country. View quote
Laurent Lamothe
The diiference is that in the private sector you work for yourself, and as Prime Minister I work for every single Haitian - inside Haiti and outside - and for all those who love Haiti as well. View quote
Laurent Lamothe