Affairs Council

Affairs Council may refer to:

  • General Affairs and External Affairs Council, one of the oldest configurations of the Council of the European Union
  • Mainland Affairs Council, a cabinet-level administrative agency under the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China
  • Minnesota Indian Affairs Council, a liaison between the government of Minnesota and the Native American tribes in the state of Minnesota

Famous quotes containing the words affairs and/or council:

    “The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which few trustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “Daughter to that good Earl, once President
    Of England’s Council and her Treasury,
    Who lived in both, unstain’d with gold or fee,
    And left them both, more in himself content.

    Till the sad breaking of that Parliament
    Broke him, as that dishonest victory
    At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty,
    Kill’d with report that old man eloquent;—”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)