Best Ministers Quotes

Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists.

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.

The coming revival must begin with a great revival of prayer. It is in the closet, with the door shut, that the sound of abundance of rain will first be heard. An increase of secret prayer with ministers will be the sure harbinger of blessing.

The enemy uses all his power to lead the Christian, and above all the minister, to neglect prayer. He knows that however admirable the sermon may be, however attractive the service, however faithful the pastoral visitation, none of these things can damage him or his kingdom if prayer is neglected.

Never take anything for granted.

The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred , confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful.

Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.

I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I’ve done pretty well with being a minister’s son. And now I know I’m pretty darn good at playing a woman too.

Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the leadership of Napoleon, the magnetism of a Beatle and the subtlety of Machiavelli.

Ministers fall like buttered slices of bread: usually on their good side.

So you know, formally, what the government here is saying is that Israel’s prime minister announced the appointment on Twitter. He didn’t follow diplomatic protocol. But what we know is that it’s about much more than that. It is about who Dani Dayan is.

Even from my sickbed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel that something is going wrong, I will get up. Those who believe that after I have left the government as prime minister, I will go into a permanent retirement, really should have their heads examined.

So little of what makes a democracy work is written down. So much of it is just the things you don’t do. There are a lot of things that a prime minister or a president can do and they don’t do them because it never occurs to them to do them.

When I don’t make a decision, it’s not that I don’t think about it. I think about it and make a decision not to make a decision.

Israel is extraordinary blessed to have [Benjamin Netanyahu] as prime minister at this pivotal time in history and so is the United States of America to hear his voice against this deal.

What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?

‘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.’

No, I’ve never truly been a minister.

We’re not free because other people are nice, maybe other people aren’t nice that day. We’re free because we expect the institutions of government to work impersonally. That we expect people in government to understand they don’t work for the president or the prime minister, they work for the government. And the government is always there.

Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen – degrees or no degrees.

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

There are certainly major differences between Poland’s policies and those of the old EU countries. Debates are going on in Brussels over a shared foreign policy and even a shared foreign minister.

When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books. I sneaked them at night. I rubbed their spines and sniffed in the musty smell of them in the library.

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn’t wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.

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

This game is repeated again and again, and in it the role of the so-called ‘German princes’ is just as miserable as that of the Jews themselves. These lords were really God’s punishment for their beloved peoples and find their parallels only in the various ministers of the present time.

Over the course of the year 1990, the then Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher had many conversations with President [Mikhail] Gorbachev and other Soviet officials.

I am in regular contact with Prime Minister [Shinzo] Abe. We have met several times this year [2016].

An old minister explained the smudges on his sermon outlines by saying they were caused by sweat and tears. And without those two marks, a sermon is not a sermon.

I would say to today’s young minister, ‘Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation’.

However, the 1956 agreement refers to two islands while the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] is talking about four islands.

The Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] and I will negotiate proceeding from our national interests: the interests of Russia and the interests of Japan. We should find a compromise.