Quotes About Government

I don't have any ambition to become minister.

We're under the Arts Council under the Minister for the Arts. The Minister for the Arts and the Minister for Industrial Development have great difficulty in agreeing over who should fund what in terms of film.

I came in to make a difference, to be a minister, to make policy.

Running a government as chief minister and managing affairs of the nation are different things.

ITC looks forward to working with the chief minister and the government of India to ensure trade leads to impact on the ground.

I have been in the politics for the last 40 years. I became chief minister in 1995 and worked in the NDA and UPA. I have seen it all.

My role as the energy minister is to implement my government's constructive and responsible role and stabilizing the world's energy markets accordingly, contributing to global economic development.

Jayalalitha has turned out to be a failure as chief minister.

I was a minister in the Vajpayee government. Atalji wanted to do so many things. But, since he was heading a coalition government, he could not do all those things.

It's the public which decides its Chief Minister. We live in a democracy.

I do understand that, having been a minister, there is difficulty putting stuff into legislation which is being negotiated. I quite understand.

I have been an MP and government minister.

Not only generals can be politicians, and not only generals can be defense ministers.

Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.

I had ministers who were just outstandingly good.

Ministers may not be responsible for administrative errors, but they are responsible for major policy blunders.

I often think about my dad. He couldn't name you half the government ministers but it doesn't mean that he hasn't got an opinion.

The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home?

In the end, the Foreign Ministry had no power at all to do anything.

I understand all the problems for the Ministry of Defence, of course I do; working within a budget and trying to do so many things is not easy.

Obviously, defence is very sensitive and very challenging ministry.

We have created a ministry of the family to work on fertility, nurseries, on a fiscal system which takes large families into account.

The way I see it, I'm not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I'm going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.

It's important to be able to sit together and form a government of the majority that serves everyone, and not a government of minorities that takes care of itself.