Top 473 Ministers Quotes & Sayings

I can't change my ministers. They are all doing a good job.

Under a democratic form of government, the people elect legislators and ministers to fulfil their policies. The role of the ministers is to give directions. The role of the bureaucracy is to implement those directions. If those who have to do the implementation are on strike, no policies can actually be implemented.

I think prime ministers, I actually think Cabinet ministers should be subject to intense scrutiny, I think that's in the public interest, even if some of the allegations made aren't right and so on, and they have to correct the record, it doesn't matter.

The five senses are the ministers of the soul.

In the old days we were the challenger brand competing against the big banks, but today I go round the world and I sit with governors of central banks and finance ministers and, in some cases, prime ministers. They all know Travelex. We are regarded as the establishment - the world's largest retailer of foreign currency.

The Prime Minister and the Chief Ministers are one team. The Cabinet Ministers and the State Ministers are another team. The Civil Servants at the Centre and the States are yet another team. This is the only way we can successfully develop India.

Ministers and merchants love nobody.

When an enlightened ruler controls his ministers, he makes it so that ministers cannot get credit for achievements gained by overstepping the bounds of their offices or make proposals and then fail to match them with actual achievements.

The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it.

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

Angels and ministers of grace defend us.

Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public education committed to the ministers of a particular one; and with more reason than in the case of their exclusion from the legislative and executive functions.

I had ministers who were just outstandingly good.

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

What is Parliament for if it is not to be a means to make ministers accountable for the services for which they are responsible.

The ministers and the Jacobins are making the king declare war tomorrow on Austria. The ministers are hoping that this move will frighten the Austrians and that within three weeks we will be negotiating (God forbid that this should happen). May we at last be avenged for all the outrages we have suffered from this country!

Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.

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

There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.

All Cabinet Ministers and other senior ministers are still sworn in as Privy Counsellors for life. The oath (which dates back to the thirteenth-century and has been described as Britain's oldest secrecy provision) commits them to keep all advice to the monarch secret.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade.

My oldest son, Gary, is a seasoned minister and travels with me for ministers' conferences.

What I have made very clear to my ministers is that I expect them to provide briefings on legislation and any issues pertaining to their electorate. Now I understand some ministerial staffers and offices have gone beyond that and I'll be speaking to my ministers that that will stop.

I have dealt with politicians ever since I came into the government in 1971. I have seen many prime ministers, many finance ministers.

Finance ministers and central bank governors have the seats at the table, not labor unions or labor ministers. Finance ministers and central bank governors are linked to financial communities in their countries, so they push policies that reflect the viewpoints and interests of the financial community and barely hear the voices of those who are the first victims of dictated policies.

We dream of an India where development is the result of all Chief Ministers, the Prime Minister, state Ministers, Union Ministers working together with even Local Body Authorities as one team, a strong and united Team India.

When people are unsettled, loyal ministers arise.

British prime ministers and prime ministers' spouses and children are together becoming ever more like first families. They need to be given sufficient resources and personnel to enable them to carry out their shifting roles efficiently, decently, and safely.

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

I get to deal with presidents and prime ministers and - and employees from tellers on up. And I love it.

I could give examples of cabinet ministers, including defence ministers, who have no technological culture at all. In other words, what I am suggesting is that the hype generated by the publicity around the Internet and so on is not counter balanced by a political intelligence that is based on a technological culture.

And when your minister asks you for money for missionary purposes, tell him there are higher, and holier, and nobler missions to be performed at home. When he asks for colleges to educate ministers, tell him you must educate woman, that she may do away with the necessity of ministers, so that they may be able to go to some useful employment.

The quick Dreams, The passion-winged Ministers of thought.

My parents are ministers.

They are more properly ‘The Messengers of Satan to buffet us.’ No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are ‘just, ruling in the fear of God.’ When once magistrates act contrary to their office, and the end of their institution when they rob and ruin the public, instead of being guardians of its peace … they immediately cease to be the ordinance and ministers of God, and no more deserve that glorious character than common pirates and highwaymen.

Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.

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

Ministers never write or preach so well as when under the cross.

Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.

But, is it possible for princes and ministers to be enlightened, when private individuals are not so?

I think it's unhelpful to suggest that the task of evangelism is essentially the responsibility of ministers.

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

If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches?

I lift my voice of warning against praising or flattering your ministers. I have seen the evil, the dreadful evil, of praising ministers. Never, never speak a word in the praise of ministers to their faces. Exalt God.

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

We have an integrated picture of the threat from outside and from within that is provided not only to our foreign ministers but also to our justice and interior ministers.

I come from a lineage of ministers.

Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries.

When I was on the London assembly it was quite common for government ministers to refuse to appear.

Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.

At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers.

This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.

Advisers advise, and ministers decide.

I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known great ministers, distinguished for wit and learning, who preferred none but dunces. I have known men of valor cowards to their wives. I have known men of cunning perpetually cheated. I knew three ministers who would exactly compute and settle the accounts of a kingdom, wholly ignorant of their own economy.

It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions.

The king shall singly deliberate over secret matters; for ministers have their own ministers, and these latter some of their own; this kind of successive line of ministers tends to the disclosure of counsels.

Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift.

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

I think personality correction is necessary for successful men, like prime ministers, businessmen, politicians... it's essential that one should keep an eye on one's own personality. You must have seen people in politics who become chief ministers and then pass into oblivion - how egotistical they became and how pathetic they look.

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