First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.
I am a tough minister.
MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.
How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know; I've never been a man minister.
When you grow up in the church, the only translation in that insular world that people understand is preaching. You're supposed to be a minister. So I was going down that path, and then I saw the Tonys.
When I was agriculture minister, we drafted specific policies to tackle the agrarian crisis.
I need to maintain a home in Derbyshire and in London to be able both to represent my constituents and to fulfil my responsibilities as an MP and as a minister.
When I became minister for employment, that was my ideal job because it meant I was able to reflect on what I saw growing up and actually try to change it.
I have become the chief minister not with a selfish motive.
I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers.
I don't do my job as minister based on polls.
I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.
I am called repeatedly and insidiously prime and sole minister.
Being a politician is a calling second only to being a minister.
I have poor people skills, and I cannot become a minister.
I have been the only female minister in every government department I've worked in.
I came in to make a difference, to be a minister, to make policy.
I'm not the Eritrean welfare minister and not the Sudanese labor minister.
I'm the British home secretary. My job is to protect the British public.
If you asked me if I'd rather be Speaker or a very senior minister, I'd say Speaker.
