Gavin Esler

In years of interviewing presidents, prime ministers and chief executives all over the world, I can remember only a handful of times in which a leader has said: 'I don't know' in answer to a question. Perhaps everyone I have ever interviewed knows everything about everything, but I doubt it.

Scottish Journalist

Jeremy Corbyn

It is important that politicians defend their ability to act without fear or favour, and it is in the public interest that they hold ministers and public servants to account.

British Politician

Gerrit Smith

It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.

American Politician

Juan Manuel Santos

When I was defense minister, I was very popular, and now that I'm president, I'm unpopular because I'm trying to make peace. It's much easier to make war and get trophies.

Colombian Politician

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

American Philosopher

Frank Peretti

My main goal is still for the books to minister in some way, to teach a spiritual truth, to enlighten people.

American Author

Chuck Berry

People said I was king, but I was never king, and I say I'm the prime minister.

American Musician

H. D. Kumaraswamy

My father was the prime minister and we had Tamil Nadu's support.

Indian Politician

LeToya Luckett

My father was a minister, so I was raised in the church.

Poppy Delevingne

I'd rather rule the world now than be prime minister.

English Model

Refers to high-ranking officials with specific duties in governance.

Government Role

Ministers are usually part of a country's government, not local or regional.

National Context

The word stresses the minister's role in crafting and executing policies.

Policy Maker

Highlights the minister's role in guiding others on spiritual matters.

Spiritual Leader

The title 'minister' is often used formally within a church or religious setting.

Religious Title

Shows how a minister engages with and supports the community.

Community Involvement

Explains that 'minister' as a verb involves providing aid or service.

Caring Action

Not just physical help, but includes emotional support.

Emotional Comfort

 Policing doesn't scale globally. At least, it hasn't, and our current system of guns, border guards, big gates and fences are outdated in the new world into which we're moving. So how might we prepare for some of these specific threats, like attacking a president or a prime minister? This would be the natural government response,

Marc Goodman: A vision...

 statistics they said yes okay you can use all the radio stations television stations and that's when we went onto the airwaves and then we had a new prime minister soon after that and he said I could you come and join he asked me in because he liked my wife a lot so I said ok he became the chairman of

How Mr. Condom made...

 you don't want my job the average life for finance ministers is two years it's been calculated I thought about how to grab your attention today with just sitting here have learned so much and I decided there are two things one is I have to transport you from all these

Africa rising. Real or...

 This was the first time a prime minister of India was given a parking ticket. That's the first time in India, and I can tell you, that's the last time you're hearing about it. It'll never happen again in India, because now it was once and forever.

Kiran Bedi: How I remade...

 wildlife it's just another way for somaliland to say like hey look world we're paying attention not only to economic development and our citizens and good governance but also to the environment it also helps that the minister of the environment

Cracking Down on Cheetah...

 as co-laborers in the struggle to reduce violence in the community. Imagine developing a plan, you have one minister at one table and a heroin dealer at the other table, coming up with a way in which the church can help the entire community.

Jeffrey Brown: How we...

 because it showed how the state's chief minister, despite his later denials, used his control over land and forest licenses to enrich himself and his family. And HSBC, well, we know that HSBC bankrolled the region's largest logging companies

Charmian Gooch: Meet...

 He literally took his ministers scuba diving, as it were, to warn the world that his country could drown unless we control global warming. Now I don't know whether he got his message across to the world or not, but he certainly caught mine.

An urgent call to...

 and then, you all remember, there was weeks and weeks of revelations, everything from porn movies and bath plugs and new kitchens and mortgages that had never been paid off. The end result was six ministers resigned,

Heather Brooke: My...

 for some of sri lanka's top brass the Minister for the environment declared wreck of a beach Sri Lanka's first wildlife sanctuary for marine turtles for me today it's all about dreams coming true