Ministers Quotes

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind. - Calvin Coolidge

A much higher level of engagement now with ministers ... We're talking about specific numbers. - Rob Portman

A committee of five secretaries, headed by the cabinet secretary, will now look into the process and submit their recommendation to the empowered group of ministers within two weeks. - Praful Patel

[The EU ministers also condemned] in the strongest terms ... wiped off the map. - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

[OPEC ministers, who were meeting through Sunday evening, have yet to reach an agreement. Some ministers suggested there was no need to put extra oil on the market.] The market is well supplied - actually it is in balance... After Katrina, everybody offered crude but the refining capacity was not there to cope with it. - Edmund Daukoru

[OPEC is due to meet in the next few months, and the oil bosses thought it could come up with more cuts in production output.] OPEC ministers will come back to the table, and there will be some adherence to cuts... but there are tough problems to solve. - John Browne

[In response, African-American Ministers In Action (AAMIA), a front group of People for the American Way, issued an August 25 press release in which AAMIA chairman Reverend Tim McDonald charged that Massie sought to] pull the wool over the eyes of the African-American community. ... John Roberts is no Martin Luther King, Jr. - Roger Wilkins

[Dr. Carolyn Bennett, Canada's minister of state for public health, was confident about progress on the national consultation on health goals that is expected to report to the first ministers in November. Dr. Bennett said Canadians are ready for improvements and she is looking forward to Canada, in a few years,] realizing Tommy Douglas's original goal of medicare which is to keep Canadians well and not just patch them up when they're sick. ... When a physician says something, people listen. We need your help. - Carolyn Bennett

(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) / Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed: / But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, / In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; / By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, / By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, / By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true; / As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; / As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. - Bible