One of the pleas you get when you're talking to the tourist industry or the energy industry or the whoever is, 'Please, can we just have the same minister for longer than five minutes?'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As a minister, you shouldn't imagine you know better than the technical experts in your ministry. In the end you're there to apply the political stamp of approval.
I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.
No-one is forced to stand for Parliament; no-one is compelled to become a minister. If you take on those roles, which are great privileges, you also take on big responsibilities.
Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.
I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.
I will do exactly as the Prime Minister asks me.
I came in to make a difference, to be a minister, to make policy.
I'm simply saying that there are advantages in sending a skilled diplomat who can always say, 'I'll get back to you on that, Mr. Minister'.
I know the world is hungry for good ministry.
One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
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