Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed against him must be battered down. Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused.
It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense. They are themselves, always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.
If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.
The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?
Finance ministers must realize that the health budget can save them money if it's applied well.
Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.
I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes and bodhisattvas, will come to an end. I hope this is something to which science can contribute. . . it may be the most important contribution that we can make.
As foreign minister I cannot allow myself to be guided by emotions.
I nominate the Reverend Ian Paisley for the position of First Minister of northern Ireland
I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.
He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitible? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things. ' Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame. But flame is transient, often short lived. Canst thou bear this, my soul - short life?. . . Make me thy fuel, Flame of God.
Life had not taught me to distrust ministers, but it had taught me to trust no one more than dogs.
I am absolutely sure to be the most democratic man to ever become Prime Minister in Italy.
The [EU] Council of Ministers will have far more power over the budgets of member states than the federal government in the United States has over the budget of Texas.
Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.
Of course, ministers look upon theaters as rival attractions, and most of their hatred is born of business views. They think people ought to be driven to church by having all other places closed. In my judgment the theater has done good, while the church has done harm. The drama never has insisted upon burning anybody. Persecution is not born of the stage.
I am not the Prime Minister of French capitalism. I am the Prime Minister of France.
I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.
My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.
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.