Foreign Affairs Minister

Famous quotes containing the words foreign, affairs and/or minister:

    “I journeyed to London, to the timekept City,
    Where the River flows, with foreign flotations.
    There I was told: we have too many churches,
    And too few chop-houses.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)

    “Just let him be minister if that’s what he desires, but without his brother and his brother-in-law.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)