“ PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Turn round, my boy! How ridiculous you look! What sort of a priest's cassock have you got on? Does everybody at the academy dress like that? ”
- Nikolai Gogol- Copy
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“ A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then. ”
- John Templeton- Copy
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“ Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
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“ On Sunday, the president flies to the Azores islands to attend a summit with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Aznar, and here's my prediction: Bush gets voted off. ”
- Craig Kilborn- Copy
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“ Canada's first Prime Minister sought, unsuccessfully, to give women the vote. Today, a century after his passing, a woman stands before you as Prime Minister of Canada. Canada's first Prime Minister also sought, successfully, to bring British Columbia into Confederation… ”
- Kim Campbell- Copy
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“ I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed. ”
- Maya Angelou- Copy
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“ Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd. ”
- Margaret Thatcher- Copy
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“ It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them. ”
- Cardinal de Retz- Copy
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“ I await the hour when a journalist can be driven from the press room for venal practices, as a minister can be unfrocked, or a lawyer disbarred. ”
- Grantland Rice- Copy
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“ It is not right for any country, for any president, for any prime minister to act as a prefect on the affairs of Zimbabwe. ”
- Levy Mwanawsa- Copy
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“ A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer. ”
- Garrison Keillor- Copy
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“ I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis. ”
- Boris Johnson- Copy
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“ The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester? ”
- Eric Idle- Copy
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“ What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce. ”
- Claire Trevor- Copy
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“ The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history. ”
- Harold Wilson- Copy
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“ His creed no parson ever knew, for this was still his "simple plan," to have with clergymen to do as little as a Christian can. ”
- Sir Francis Doyle- Copy
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“ I'd like to be the person I could have been but never was. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats. ”
- John McCarthy- Copy
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“ Say 'Dodgers' and people know you're talking about baseball. Say 'Braves' and they ask, 'What reservation?' Say 'Reds' and they think of communism. Say 'Padres' and they look around for a priest. ”
- Tommy Lasorda- Copy
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“ What it means is that the president decided to engage our brains rather than open the taxpayers' wallets immediately, and what he wants to do is to conduct a quick, prompt review,... FOX News Sunday. ”
- Donald Rumsfeld- Copy
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“ It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification. ”
- Bruce McCall- Copy
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“ Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ I don't mind how much my ministers talk — as long as they do what I say. ”
- Margaret Thatcher- Copy
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“ The Deputy Prime Minister will present a bill that is rambling, over-inflated, illogical and ridiculously cumbersome - funny coincidence, that. ”
- William Hague- Copy
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“ The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage. ”
- Aneurin Bevan- Copy
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