When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.
When I was young, I was dedicated to become a minister - my brothers and I were formally brought in front of the congregation in a dedication ceremony, where we were dedicated to the future service of God.
Ministers of God's choosing are engaged in a great work. They are warring not merely against men, but Satan and his angels.
God requires his people to shine as lights in the world. It is not merely the ministers who are required to do this, but every disciple of Christ. Their conversation should be heavenly.
All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare.
Presidents and prime ministers, whether they live in the rich or the poor world, are insulated and isolated from the devastating impact of global poverty. They read the statistics, but they rarely witness at first hand the misery and degradation of l...
I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.
People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.
Your assignment from God is not to change your spouse, but to love, follow, assist, and minister to them.
You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.
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.
A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.
If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu made it real clear. They're willing to be generous on some other concessions but not on the border issue. And I don't blame him.
But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.
I think the Prime Minister has embarked on a journey and he has no idea where he's taking us.
But first, the news: The House of Commons was sealed off today after police chased an escaped lunatic through the front door during Prime Minister's question time. A spokesman at Scotland Yard said it was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Minister: [addressing the audience] But enough of words, actions speak louder than. Action now. Observe all.
Prime Minister: [on the phone to his sister] I'm very busy and important. How can I help you?
