Certainly the international community is putting a lot of pressure on Iran and making clear that its nuclear program must stop. If it stops with the sanctions, the combinations of sanctions, diplomacy, other pressures, I, as the prime minister of Israel, will be the happiest person in the world.
Minister
My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism – certainly not politics.
No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.
When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister’s son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
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.
My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
I’m the prime minister who removed 400 checkpoints, barriers, road-blocks and so on to facilitate the growth of the Palestinian economy.