women-s-and-minorities-ministers

"I am confident I will retain my seat. In 2011, I received the highest number of votes nationwide, with 87 percent of the total vote, so my chances are strong as long as my party nominates me. I am also confident they will, as they know I need to complete my term."

"Our predecessor accomplished a great deal for the constituency, and we will work to bring even more developments to the area."

"The voters trust me, and I have a strong relationship with the traditional leaders in the constituency, so I believe my chances of retaining my seat are high."

"Algerian women have gone beyond their traditional role and are now pioneers by assuming the positions that were stipulated in the recent constitutional amendment, which approved the principle of equality between women and men. This reflects the state’s political will to bolster women’s rights and gains similar to their counterparts in the Arab world."

"The Algerian state places paramount importance on protecting and promoting childhood through several measures in favor of this category."

"My new appointment will create some protests and resentment by many Islamic extremists. But my struggle will continue, despite the difficulties and threats that I have received. My only aim is to defend fundamental rights, religious freedom and the life of Christians and other religious minorities. I am prepared for any sacrifice for this mission, which I carry out with the spirit of a servant of God. I thank all those who have prayed for me and supported me. I am receiving many messages of support from Pakistan and around the world."

"We have noted some gaps in section 29 of the Child Act, and already the government is in the move to work on it accordingly."

"another service that will be provided include adoption of children and step-parenting."

"Australia remains committed to our one China policy."

"I know Justin. He doesn’t have a clue what he’s doing. This guy is an empty trust-fund millionaire who has the political depth of a finger bowl. He can’t read a briefing note longer than a cocktail napkin, O.K."

"We cannot continue indefinitely to impair the social and economic — as well as the mental health and physiological health of the broader population — for potentially a year for an influenza that does not generally threaten life apart from the elderly and the immunocompromised."

"I became president of the pro-life group in my campus and helped to lead an ultimately successful initiative petition, which led to a referendum which overturned the first gay spousal law in North America."

"[Canada] is an imperfect country, but it is still a great country, just as John A. Macdonald was an imperfect man but was still a great leader."

"I don't accept the Alberta bashing that is going on here."

"Nowhere in any of the principal human rights statutes of the world is there to be found a grounding for so-called same sex marriage"

"The fact is homosexuals aren’t banned from marrying under Canadian law. Marriage is open to everyone, as long as they’re a man and a woman. It doesn’t say you can’t marry if you’re a homosexual. The fact is that homosexuals have been married and do marry."

"There has been no media coverage of D Suzuki's extreme anti-immigration views.What would happen if a prominent conservative said same thing?"

"Suzuki’s extreme comments reveal how offside he is with Canadians"

"At that one very public moment, of a very public declaration of one’s loyalty to one’s fellow citizens and country, one should do so openly, proudly and publicly, without one’s face hidden."

"Sometimes the government has to answer questions with ambiguous language."

"I don’t think it’s right to keep secrets from parents about challenges their kids are going through."

"We’re not climate deniers, we’re climate tax deniers."

"We are changing the law and I am personally working on it to bring 16-year-olds into the purview. According to the police, 50 per cent of the crimes are committed by 16-year-olds who know the Juvenile Justice Act. But now for premeditated murder, rape, if we bring them into the purview of the adult world, then it will scare them."

"Money through trade of slaughtered animals goes into terrorism, therefore goes into killing us, why are we allowing this?"

"I have not done anything to merit being thrown out. I don't understand why I am being attacked and held personally responsible. I am more loyal to my mother-in-law than even to my mother."

"You have 2,000 girls who are killed in the womb every day. Some are born and have pillows on their faces choking them."

"It is a win-win situation for us — no harm to janitors by way of daily exposure to chemicals, and cows will be valued more."

"Three years ago, I came to you as a bride. Today, I come as a widow who, with a small child, was thrown out of her mother-in-law's house."

"I mean, winning an election is no big deal. It's what you do with the power afterward that matters. And, well, for me anyway, it's proving you can do something entirely on your own, entirely your own way and for a commitment that is larger than yourself."

"In India, no power plant runs beyond 58 per cent of its capacity. I believe instead of making yet another plant which is really disastrous, what you should do first is to go in for conservation - that is increase your 58 per cent to 90 per cent. Your power problem would be solved right there."

"Has prostitution come to an end because of warnings against it?"

"For many years, the country has believed these pesticides are vital to keeping away starvation, to advance the green revolution. The main concern was food production and disease control - not public health safety. Some of us believe this must change, but it . . . will take some time."

"The movement I have initiated against the entry of junk food has already resulted in the reduction of sales of KFC in Bangalore to a record low."

"Whether they serve lamb or vegetable burgers is irrelevant. McDonald's is the largest killer of cows in the world."

"Among a certain class this winter, there wasn't a party in Delhi that didn't have cocaine."

"It is so naturally high in fat that it leads to obesity, the cause of all modern disease. Ayurveda actually lists milk as one of the five white poisons."

"One problem is the destruction of the habitat, and the second is this constant catching of elephants for training, for tourism or logging. And this training that we are doing is the most brutal, primitive and stupid in the whole world."

"If men get injured, it is another reason to ban jallikattu. Anyway, it is not a sport, but a torture to make the animal do an unnatural act. This is being practiced by a bunch of drunken youngsters."

"Can we afford to let Laloo, whose knowledge of anything except caste structures is non-existent, damage the rural economy further? The long-suffering railway ministry, which has by now lost its ability to resist any absurd decision by any of their ministers, has agreed to budget Rs 250 crore a year to buy kulhars. While all that money comes from your pocket, where will it actually go?"

"If there are 500 tigers left in India, I'd be surprised. They are even skinning the tigers in Indian zoos."

"In all cases that have been investigated, the only time a state government gives permission for nilgai and wild boar shooting is when it is requested by vips, hotel and tourism people or friends of politicians."

"We are already into the crisis. It will accelerate in the next five years. There will come a time in the next 10 years when it will be irrelevant which party comes to power. The word democracy will be irrelevant when people rush to grab whatever available resources are left."

"While I respect culture, this bull-killing ritual causes extreme suffering to an innocent creature and has no place in the modern world. Tradition is not an excuse for cruelty, and many societies have ended or are working to end ‘traditional’ practices—such as slavery, cannibalism, infanticide, female circumcision, foot-binding, bullfighting, and fox hunting—that cause animals or humans to suffer."

"Meat can no longer be protected as a personal choice. If your meat is going to destroy my health and our environment, you ought to have to pay for it."

"On the positive side, at least we know now what to stock up with in case of a nuclear war. Also filmstars might consider injecting liquidized McD into their faces to halt the ageing process."

"Let me clarify at the outset that this decision to permit hunting of wild boars and blue bull in the wild is not taken for the sake of farmers, but to benefit those private forest lodge operators who have clients from Middle East and other countries."

"When I was studying in Bangalore, temperature would be around 21 degree and now it is 31 degree. The drastic increase in the level of temperature is due to industrialisation."

"Just see how well the Jains and the Marwaris do in life. It cannot be a co-incidence that they are so well educated and affluent. It is because of their way of life which involves least harm to a living being."