Minister

Minister may refer to:

  • Minister (Christianity), a Christian who ministers in some way
  • Minister (diplomacy), the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador
  • Minister (government), a politician who heads a ministry (government department)
  • Shadow minister, a member of a Shadow Cabinet of the opposition

Famous quotes containing the word minister:

    “Before any woman is a wife, a sister or a mother she is a human being. We ask nothing as women but everything as human beings.”
    —Ida C. Hultin, U.S. minister and suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 17, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)

    “[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it’s power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of their virtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “But, my dear, you cannot live in isolation from the human race, you know.”
    —John Clifford, U.S. screenwriter, and Herk Harvey. Minister (Stan Levitt)