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This was the first time a prime minister of India was given a parking ticket.
For instance, she is now the president of Finland, but Tarja Halonen was the foreign minister of Finland and, at a certain stage, head of the European Union.
And she became Dilma Rousseff, the president-elect of one of the biggest democracies in the world, moving from minister of energy to president.
Everybody looks at this prime minister of that country, and he says, "Yes."
The following day, again everybody went to the center to meet the winning team and the prime minister at the time.
Or in 2007, the Norwegian deputy foreign minister, Espen Eide, to say that that would deliver the "decisive year."
And you'll be delighted to hear in 2011, today, that Guido Westerwelle, the German foreign minister, assures us that we are in the "decisive year."
The minister of education down south in London described himself as a "big fan."
Between six to 14 year-old children participate in a democratic process, and they elect a prime minister.
The prime minister is 12 years old.
She looks after 20 goats in the morning, but she's prime minister in the evening.
She has a cabinet, a minister of education, a minister for energy, a minister for health.
And the girl, who's on her left, turned to me and looked at the queen straight in the eye and said, "Please tell her I'm the prime minister."
The minister couldn't believe what was happening.
So the word "silhouette" comes from a minister of finance, Etienne de Silhouette.
When I first came to Afghanistan in 2005 as a foreign minister, I met the commander of ISAF, the international troops.
And he told me that, "This can be won militarily, minister.
Fast-forward, 2004: In the peak of our activism, the minister of Gender Liberia called me and said, "Leymah, I have a nine-year-old for you.
So how might we prepare for some of these specific threats, like attacking a president or a prime minister?
In fact, the Chinese minister of finance said to me, when I asked him what are we doing wrong in Nigeria.
And later this year, the rail minister was sacked and sentenced to jail for 10 years.
So I had the opportunity to talk to the prime minister, why he made this decision.
Suppose tomorrow morning the prime minister of Britain or the president of the U.S., or the leader of any other developed nation, woke up and said, "I'm never going to be able to create all the jobs I need in the current climate.
And in the middle is the minister of Ethiopian tourism, who came to visit the National Museum of Ethiopia while I was working there.
And you see me worried and trying to protect my child, because you don't leave anyone with this kind of child, even a minister.
I had just been elected prime minister, but I had the unhappy privilege of revealing a truth that our deficit was not 6 percent, as had been officially reported only a few days earlier before the elections by the previous government, but actually 15.6 percent.
Negotiations are difficult, the tensions are high, progress is slow, and then, 10 minutes to 2, a prime minister shouts out, "We have to finish in 10 minutes."
Another prime minister comes in and says, "No, we have to have an agreement now, because in 10 minutes, the markets are opening up in Japan, and there will be havoc in the global economy."
It was not a good decision, clearly, but how do you feel after that, not as the prime minister, but as George?
And then there's that cliché, the African dictator or minister or official.
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