Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.
When I was the finance minister, I got on well with the RBI Governor.
If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.
I was a very senior minister in the Howard government and I sat around this particular table [in the prime ministerial office] in many discussions. The difference between being a senior minister and the prime minister is that ultimately the buck does stop with the prime minister and in the end the prime minister has to make those critical judgement calls and that's the big difference.
I've been in public office now 14 years, I've been a senior minister for six. There's pretty much a fair bit out there about the kind of person I am and how I apply myself to the job.
It will not surprise me if I turn out to by the last Minister from the United States to the British Court, and that will certainly be fame if it be not honor.
The U. S. and England were at the brink of war:
Ministers would have been hard put to alter the harvests or bring orders to industry. But they were ministers and they had to do something.
My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
I am a youth minister, ordained by the Riverside Church in upper New York. But to declare myself a minister and begin to preach from the pulpit, from the Bible, to a congregation and to build a church, so to speak - I don't have a desire for that.
It's been an honour to represent Orpington for 9 years & to serve as a minister under three PMs.
I am not helpless. Any timid minister will not go forward... I have come here to strive hard for the sake of the country, to work for the country. If anybody thinks that decision making process in the oil sector will be prevented, they are totally wrong.
I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.
Transport is not a ministry the ambitious should accept: no transport minister has gone on to be prime minister.
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
I had known, number one, that there would never be any role for me in the leadership capacity with SCLC. Why? First, I'm a woman. Also, I'm not a minister. And second, I am a person that feels that I have to maintain some degree of personal integrity and be my own barometer of what is important and what is not.
My priority is my economy minister mandate and to create momentum.
My dad was a Methodist minister.
As a minister, you shouldn't imagine you know better than the technical experts in your ministry. In the end you're there to apply the political stamp of approval.
I want to become foreign minister of India one day and then President of India.
As a pastor, you get invited into the most poignant moments of people's lives. Whether it's a wedding or a funeral or a hospital visit, you get invited into the center of the event, whether or not you know the people.
I really can't claim ever to have had an exceptionally close relationship with a minister. I'm always there. I pay my pledge. I listen and observe with interest. I'm very sympathetic with the rigor and the aesthetic quality of what they do. Aside from that, I don't have a kind of personal experience with any of them that I could consider privileged, so to speak.
I haven't had vast amounts of ministerial experience - in fact, none at all. But I do have a lot of experience of people.
Most academicians are not too good politicians. Schumpeter, for instance, was a great economist, but he didn't do too well as minister of finance for Austria
I was Minister for the Armed Forces in the Ministry of Defence for two years prior to being appointed Defence Secretary.
No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.
