#minister

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#affairs #among #conduct #does #free

All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs. ↗

— Andrew Fletcher

#affairs #been #court #crowns #designs

It's the job of a special advisor to be the eyes and ears of a minister and it's the job of a corporate lobbyist to represent the best interests of their organization. ↗

— Thomas Watson, Jr.

#best #best interests #corporate #ears #eyes

Yes, alive,” said Fudge. “That is — I don’t know — is a man alive if he can’t be killed? I don’t really understand it, and Dumbledore won’t explain properly — but anyway, he’s certainly got a body and is walking and talking and killing, so I suppose, for the purposes of our discussion, yes, he’s alive. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death #fudge #prime-minister #walking #death

I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president. ↗

— Indra Nooyi

#also #anything #arrange #becoming #catholic

New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#either #had #i #ministers #new

One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister. ↗

— Alex Cox

#colorless #contemporaries #harder #his #law

Stephen Harper, who's the prime minister of Canada, he is saying that this - we have to give him a majority government, otherwise there will be a Separatist coalition. And he says it every minute. ↗

— Rick Mercer

#coalition #every #give #government #harper

It is our job to work for the government of the day and so that means working for Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, and we need to do those preparations just to be sure that we're ready for whoever you, the British public, elect and that's core to our civil service values over the last 150 years. ↗

— Gus O'Donnell

#brown #civil #civil service #core #day

The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling for women is that few government ministers seem to even appreciate the value of the work they do. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#even #few #galling #government #husbands