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# Thoko Didiza

Angela Thokozile Didiza (née Msane; born 2 June 1965) is a South African politician serving as Speaker of the National Assembly since 14 June 2024. A member of the African National Congress (ANC), she was formerly the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development between May 2019 and June 2024. She served an earlier stint in the cabinet between 1999 and 2008.

## Quotes
### "End of term: Minister Didiza reflects on her legacy" (2024)

    She said in an interview "End of term: Minister Didiza reflects on her legacy", Food for Mzani (April 9, 2024)
* I had to make sure that the cabinet approved farmer support policy so that it guides the entirety of the sector and provinces.
* Another challenge is how to position agriculture to adapt quickly in addressing issues of climate change. It is not just about El Niño or La Niña when there are rains or floods. It’s also about new pests and diseases that are emerging and that is a challenge we are working on.
* Challenges I faced, on one hand, have been to try and continue with the work that has been done in the past, to resolve some of those where some of the projects were not complete, and complete them. Even though some of them are still outstanding because of the complexities that are there.
* Food security is achieved through the capacity to produce and, at the same time, it’s the purchasing power to be able to acquire that food.
* The grants that social development gives for social relief, as well as the normal grants given to the elderly and the children and disabled are interventions as part of the social security net so that people do not go hungry.
* Sometimes support to farmers is not only financial but also about enabling them through the information that will position them better in accessing markets, and what they need to do in terms of the compliance issues that they have to address.
* On our side, assisting farmers with inputs so that on a small-scale level they can produce for their household is one of the bedrocks that support food security.
# Francisco Duque III

Francisco Duque III (born 13 February 1957) is a Filipino politician who currently serves as the Secretary of Health of the Philippines since 26 October 2017 and previously in 2005–2009.

## Quotes

* Those who get infected (by COVID-19 Omicron variant despite being already vaccinated) are either wearing their (face) mask wrongly or with their nose sticking out. That's useless. That is what we call token compliance, but it's the wrong way of doing things.
** Francisco Duque III (2022) cited in: "Duterte asks: 'Is COVID-19 airborne?' Duque blames spread on 'token compliance' with rules" in Inquirer.net, 17 January 2022.
# Nadia Makram Ebeid

Nadia Makram Ebeid(Arabic: نادية مكرم عبيد) is an Egyptian academic who served as the minister of state for environment being the first Egyptian woman who served in the post.

## Quotes

* I now cherish the ability to be surprised by things that come up unexpectedly, by beautiful things and new perspectives that emerge out of the blue, even in the most conventional and repetitive settings. The ability to be surprised surprises me.
* think it is very hard to imagine what your driving forces are and often one has to ask again and again, what’s the point of doing this, what’s the point of doing this, what’s the point of doing this.
* often feel like, because of the situation we are in, there is no point in doing this. But I think there is also just joy, in finding that things come together, the joy of writing, even though I really find writing gruesome.
* But there is something beautiful in the ability to create and I think that is the driving force, it is an attempt to create, to build, to be a witness, to tell stories when everything else doesn’t make sense and you know that your possibility to change things on the ground is not so high.
* If your work is about trauma and repression, it’s hard to be hopeful.
* a lot of our experience of the world but sometimes they take over too much and I think maybe there is something else to be explored, something more than defeat.
* This strict code of conduct has its roots in the patriarchal culture…of the country,and exerts enormous influence on society. So, the mindset of patriarchy is still there,”
* We need women to have self-confidence that they can change, that this is the revolution we need and this is the revolution we deserve.
* There remains a huge gap between the vision and reality. Why? Because the big debate is how to blend Islamic politics and respect for women’s rights,”
* Promoting women’s rights because it will spur development and economic growth is a powerful way for the United States to advance its foreign policy in the future.
* An increase in average female education by just three years can lower fertility rates and increase female support of political change and ability to be independent.
* Though current legislation is more favorable to women than ever before in Egypt.
* . Remembering that what women need… is a voice and a job
* All talk to democracy is bulls— without equality with men…when will the bomb of Arab woman explode? I’m speaking here of her ability, her ambition, her liberty, strength and rights.
# Gholam-Hossein Elham

Gholam-Hossein Elham (born in 1959) is an Iranian conservative and principlist politician who held several posts during the term of the former President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, including serving as Iran's Minister of Justice and as a member of the Guardian Council.

## Quotes

* We firmly believe that the withdrawal of occupation forces from Iraq will result in a speedy resolution to most of the problems that country is currently struggling with.
** "No change in Iran's US policy". Press TV. 22 July 2007. Retrieved on 23 July 2007.

## External links

* Iran can file complaint against U.S. interventionism: Elham, July 2007
# Babatunde Fashola

Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN (Yoruba: Bàbátúndé Rájí Fáṣọlá; born 28 June 1963) is a Nigerian lawyer and current Federal Minister of Works and Housing. He served two terms as Governor of Lagos State from May 29, 2007 to May 29, 2015.

## Quotes

* The concept of loyalty is a very strange one. My prayer is, may our loyalty never be tested.”
** Thisday backpage, Tinubu, Aregbesola and Loyalty. February 26, 2022
* The more transport infrastructure we provide the more efficient the economy becomes, resulting in more business opportunities.
* The health of the private sector in any economy is a fair measure of how prosperous and democratic that economy is.
* I have played my role but people can decide whether it is quiet or not
# Petr Fiala

Petr Fiala (born 1 September 1964) is a Czech politician who currently serves as the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic since 28 November 2021. He previously served as the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports in 2012–2013.

## Quotes

* Andrej Babis must prove that he used taxed money for the transaction. If not, he has no right to be in politics and take care of taxpayers' money
** Pandora Papers: How leak is being reported around the world (4 October 2021)
* The combination of rising inflation, energy crisis and COVID epidemic makes this (2021) the most difficult year for our citizens since our country came to existence.
** Petr Fiala (2022) cited in "New Czech centre-right government wins confidence vote in parliament" on The Star, 14 January 2022.
# Ernst Fischer (writer)

Ernst Fischer (3 July 1899 – 31 July 1972), also known under the pseudonyms: Ernst Peter Fischer, Peter Wieden, Pierre Vidal, and Der Miesmacher, was a Bohemian-born Austrian journalist, writer and politician.

## Quotes

* Art is necessary in order that man should be able to recognize and change the world. But art is also necessary by virtue of the magic inherent in it.
** The Necessity of Art: A Marxist Approach (1965), Penguin Books, translated by Anna Bostock.

## Quotes about

* Our difficulties with the Russians increased, but I never really blamed Konev. He obviously was merely carrying out instructions. He even had a sense of humor about it occasionally. Once when we were discussing Austrian politics, the name of the Communist party leader, Ernst Fischer, was mentioned. Jokingly, I said: "Well, I don't like him because he is a Communist." Konev grunted. "That's fine," he said. "I don't like him either because he's an Austrian Communist."
** Mark W. Clark, Calculated Risk (1950), p. 477
* The Marxist critic, Ernst Fischer, cuttingly pronounced, "The feature common to all significant artists and writers in the capitalist world is their inability to come to terms with the social reality that surrounds them."
** Nadine Gordimer "When Art Meets Politics" (1999)

## External links

* Seite zu Ernst Fischer der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek
* "Ernst Fischer". Aeiou Encyclopedia (in German).
* Ernst Fischer in the German National Library catalogue
* Authority control: WorldCat search
# Yasmine Fouad

Yasmine Salah El-Din Fouad Abdel Aziz is an Egyptian politician. She has been Minister of Environment in Mostafa Madbouly's ministry since 18 June 2018.

## Quotes

* The ministers are expected to present ideas and solutions during the session on how to bridge the gaps to achieve a successful outcome in Baku, and that the dialogue will contribute to increasing ambition and accelerating work to develop scenarios for more political participation.
* The multilateral system is under pressure to demonstrate its ability to achieve results at the required speed and scale, adding that COP29 will be a decisive test for the Paris Agreement and global climate action and cooperation on a large scale.
* It is expected that the parties will make significant progress towards this goal and will participate in developing the objective framework for a draft negotiating text that includes the progress achieved, stressing the need for progress on the technical and political tracks.
* Agreeing on a new, fair and ambitious collective quantitative target that takes into account the needs and priorities of developing countries is the first negotiating priority for the COP29.
* Egypt has made remarkable progress in implementing the goals of the global framework for biodiversity at the national level.
# Joseph Fouché

Joseph Fouché, 1st Duc d'Otrante (May 21, 1759 – December 25, 1820) was a French statesman and Minister of Police under Napoleon Bonaparte. In English texts his title is often translated as Duke of Otranto.

## Quotes

* "It is more than a crime; it is a political fault," —words which I record, because they have been repeated and attributed to others.
** Memoirs of Fouché. Commonly quoted, "It is worse than a crime,—it is a blunder", and attributed to Talleyrand; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
* Death is an eternal sleep.
** Inscription placed by his orders on the Gates of the Cemeteries in 1794; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
* Terror, salutary terror, is here in truth the order of the day; it represses all the efforts of the wicked ; it divests crime of all covering and tinsel!
** In a letter to the Committee of Public Safety while Representative on Mission in the City of Lyon, December 1793; reported in The Court and Camp of Buonaparte (1829), p. 65. See also Caroline Moorehead, Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour Du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era (2010), p. 177, quoting the phrase as "Terror, salutary terror, is the order of the day".
# Daphrose Gahakwa

Daphrose Mukankubito Gahakwa is a Rwandan politician who served as Minister of Education from 2008 to 2009.

## Quotes

* Even University and College lecturers will also be required to lecture in English and that this has already started in various institutions.
** Ms Daphrose Gahakwa said as minister of education. (our world leaders,2011)
# Yoav Gallant

Yoav Gallant (Hebrew: יוֹאָב גָּלַנְטְ‎; born 8 November 1958) is an Israeli politician serving as the Ministry of Defense since 2022.

## Quotes

* I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly.
** Cited in Defense minister announces ‘complete siege’ of Gaza: No power, food or fuel, The Times of Israel (9 October 2023).
* I have released all the restraints, we have (regained) control of the area, and we are moving to a full offense. You will have the ability to change the reality here. You have seen the prices (being paid), and you will get to see the change. Hamas wanted a change in Gaza; it will change 180 degrees from what it thought. They will regret this moment, Gaza will never go back to what it was. Whoever comes to decapitate, murder women, Holocaust survivors, we will eliminate him with all our might, and without compromise.
** Cited in "Gallant: Israel moving to full offense, Gaza will never go back to what it once was", The Times of Israel (10 October 2023).
** The murder of at least 1,300 Israelis by Hamas on 7 October 2023 led to the 2023 Israel–Hamas war.
* [Israel] will topple Hamas rule in Gaza. We will eliminate its military capability. We will make sure this threat doesn't exist on our border. It will take time, and it will be lethal, powerful and forever.
** At a press conference (13 October 2023) following a meeting Gallant had with Benjamin Netanyahu and US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, as cited in "Austin says Hamas attack "worse than ISIS" in Israel visit", Axios (13 October 2023)
* I make it now clear: At the end of the war, Hamas will not control Gaza, there will be no civilian Israeli control in the Gaza Strip, and Tzahal will retain full military freedom of action.
** Press conference on 5 February 2024
# Nevine Gamea

Nevine Gamea was the Minister of Industry and Trade of Egypt. She came to the cabinet in December 2019. She is the first female minister to have this post since June 30, 2013. She was replaced with Ahmed Samir Saleh in a cabinet reshuffle in August 2022.

## Quotes

* It is important to take into account that this kind of enterprises is often run by one person or one family, which could enfeeble the enterprise's financial position.
* The law gives as well more financial and non-financial incentives, which targets the companies and institutions that support these enterprises. In addition, it adopts simplified bases for taxes imposed on these enterprises and develops mechanisms to put these incentives in action.
* Under the law, the enterprise premises shall be temporarily allocated to the funding institution, thereby securing its fund recovery rights according to the risks it shoulders.
* The law has put into effect a stimulating mechanism that will enable enterprises operating in the informal sector to engage in the formal economy. Such a mechanism will allow them to obtain a temporary licence for a period up to five years until their conditions have been reconciled. They will similarly be entitled to a package of financial and non-financial incentives in the same period.
* The law sets that informal enterprises applying to formalise will be exempt from the stamp duty and registration fees for five years. It also states a unified custom duty of two percent of imported machines and equipment and that capital gains resulting from assets and production equipment will be exempt from taxes with conditions.
* The law encompasses six major pillars. It gives a consolidated definition for MSMEs. A serious problem the MSMEs sector was facing in Egypt is having more than one definition for these enterprises. This has resulted in widescale confusion that negatively affected the sector.
# Natalia Gavrilița

Natalia Gavrilița (born 21 September 1977) is a Moldovan politician who currently serves as the 15th and current Prime Minister of Moldova since 6 August 2021. She was the Minister of Finance in 2019.

## Quotes

* The state of emergency (in Moldova imposed on 24 February 2022) will allow us to be flexible and quickly take measures to solve emerging problems (related to Ukrainian refugees due to 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine).
** Natalia Gavrilița (2022) cited in: "Moldova declares 60-day state of emergency" in Xinhua Net, 25 February 2022.
* Everybody has come together to host, to provide shelter, to provide food, to provide assistance to those who are fleeing war. But we will need assistance to deal with this influx, and we need this quickly.
** Natalia Gavrilița (2022) cited in: "Ukrainians Find Warm Welcome in Moldova" in Institute for War & Peace Reporting, 11 March 2022.
# Benny Gantz

Benny Gantz (Hebrew: בִּנְיָמִין "בֵּנִי" גַּנְץ‎‎; born 9 June 1959) is an Israeli politician serving as the 1st Alternate Prime Minister of Israel in 2020–2021 and and Minister of Defense from 17 May 2020 until 29 December 2022.

## Quotes

* We will increase our vigilance and readiness to thwart terror ... and will continue to take any measures necessary in facing terror groups in the area.
** Benny Gantz (2021) cited in "Israel’s politicians promise to apprehend West Bank gunmen" on i24 News, 17 December 2021.
# Mohamed Ould Ghazouani

Mohamed Ould Ghazouani (Arabic: محمد ولد الشيخ محمد أحمد ولد الغزواني; born 4 December 1956) is a Mauritanian politician who currently serves as the 9th and current Prime Minister of Mauritania since 1 August 2019. He previously served as the Defence Minister for Mauritania in 2018–2019 and Chief of Staff of the Army in 2008–2018.

## Quotes

* Tt is unimaginable how much the peoples of the region pay for the failure of a strong, efficient and integrated Maghreb union.
** Mohamed Ould Ghazouani (2021) cited in "El Ghazouani: Mauritania Offers Hand in Restoring Ties Between Maghreb Countries" on Morocco World News, 24 December 2021.
# Gilberto Gil

Gilberto Gil (born June 26, 1942) is a Brazilian musician and the country's former Minister of Culture.

## Quotes

* Brazil was, is, and will be in fashion.
** "Brazil's Gilberto Gil, minister of cool". Reuters via CNN. 2003-09-01. Retrieved on 2008-03-16.
* Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life…but I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future.
** Burkeman, Oliver (2005-10-14). "Minister of counterculture". The Guardian (Guardian Media Group).
* [on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws] To make the digital world join in the samba…
** Dibbell, Julian (November 2004). "We Pledge Allegiance to the Penguin". Wired 12 (11). Retrieved on 2008-03-16.
* Brasília is a weird place but I like being here. I can focus on the job here, there's no city madness and I don't need urban stimulation.
** Steward, Sue (2003-10-19). "Minister of cool: part one". The Observer (Guardian Media Group). Retrieved on 2008-03-16.
# Laure Olga Gondjout

Laure Olga Gondjout (born 18 December 1953) is a Gabonese politician who served in the government of Gabon as Minister of Communication and Telecommunications from 2007 to 2008, as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2008, and again as Minister of Communication and Digital Economy from 2008 to 2011.She was also the the Secretary-general of the Presidency from 2011 to 2014.

## Quotes

* I can tell you that I feel and live fully African to my core. I am convinced of the Africanness and Africanism of the sons and daughters of Africa who have understood that we have no choice but to succeed in this wonderful adventure.
** Laurie Olag on being African
* We want to devote a lot of energy so that Africa can talk and act, while making peace and development its main concerns.
* Far too many people forget far too quickly the lessons of life, peace, and sometimes governance of the men and women that Omar Bongo was able to give us.
# Yitzchak Gruenbaum

Yitzhak Gruenbaum (Polish: Izaak Grünbaum, Hebrew and Yiddish: יצחק גרינבוים, born 1879, died 1970) was a noted leader of the Zionist movement among Polish Jewry between the two world wars and of the Yishuv in Mandatory Palestine, and the first Interior Minister of Israel and candidate for President.

## Quotes

* I think it is necessary to state here – Zionism is above everything.
* I will not demand that the Jewish Agency allocate a sum of 300,000 or 100,000 pounds sterling to help European Jewry. And I think that whoever demands such things is performing an anti-Zionist act.
** During an early 1943 discussion suggesting allocation of some “Zionist money” for rescue during the Holocaust:
** Tom Segev, The Seventh Million ISBN 978-0805066609.

## Quotes about Gruenbaum

* Indeed, there were Jews, like Yitzhak Gruenbaum, the Polish Zionist leader, who sincerely hoped for a united front of German and Jewish minorities [in Central and Eastern Europe]. Yet far from uniting in their common adversity, insecure Germans turned against even more insecure Jews.
** Niall Ferguson, The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (2006), p. 173
# Dorothy Gwajima

Dorothy Onesphoro Gwajima also known Gwajima Dorothy is a Tanzanian CCM politician and a nominated cabinet member since 2020. She was appointed by President John Magufuli into the Magufuli cabinet as the Minister of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elders and Children. She continued in this role following the death of John Magufuli, however, in January 2022 the ministry was split and she became the new Minister of Community Development and Gender .

## Quotes

* 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.
** Dorothy Gwajima said, (The East African, August 15, 2022)
* another service that will be provided include adoption of children and step-parenting.
** https://dailynews.co.tz/ministry-opens-call-centre-to-facilitate-communication/, (The Daily News, August 12, 2023)
# Tarja Halonen

Tarja Kaarina Halonen (born 24 December 1943 in Helsinki) is a Finnish politician who served as president of Finland from 2000 to 2012.

## Quotes

* It is positive that the change in Finland means a rush in the elections and not in the streets.
** Jytky yllätti Tarja Halosen: "Yli meni" Ilta-Sanomat 19 April 2011 In Finnish: On positiivinen asia, että Suomessa muutos merkitsee sitä, että rynnätään vaaliuurnille eikä kaduille (translated)
* Women receive easily the most difficult assignments.
** Te naiset, te naiset: Sitaatteja vain naisilta (Ed. Laine Jarkko; Jung Irmeli) Otava 2006 In Finnish: Naisille annetaan helposti vaikeimmat tehtävät (translated)
# Peeni Henare

Peeni Henare is a New Zealander politician who currently serves as the 41st Minister of Defence since 6 November 2020 and Minister for Whānau Ora since 26 October 2017. He previously served as the Minister for Youth in 2017–2020, Minister of Civil Defence in 2019–2020 and Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector in 2017–2019.

## Quotes

* You imagine Pacific islands, the tropical nature of the place and the bright colour of the sands and beaches. It's all very grey and dull because of the ash that just blankets the entire land (Tonga).
** Peeni Henare (2022) cited in: "Tonga airport runway being cleared of ash as Australian planes ready to depart" in The Guardian, 19 January 2022.
# Barbara Hogan

Barbara Hogan (born 28 February 1952) is a former Minister of Health and of Public Enterprises in the Cabinet of South Africa.

## Quotes

* We know HIV causes AIDS.
** Nkosikhona Duma, Quote of the Day. Time. Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008
* I think we need to take a hard look at what is excluding black South Africans from participating in the economy, but we've got to get beyond the creation of a black middle class we've got to get to where the real need is now.
** Nkosikhona Duma, BARBARA HOGAN CRITICAL OF BEE, SAYS IT FOSTERS A CULTURE OF ENTITLEMENT, Eye Witness News. 21 August 2022 16:35

## Honours

Hogan was included in the 2009 Time 100, an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
On April 13, 2011, Hogan received an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Kentucky, alongside her life-partner Ahmed Kathrada.

## External links

* The South African History Archive: Barbara Hogan
* ANSA Website
* ↑ "The 2009 Time 100: Barbara Hogan". Time. April 30, 2009.
* ↑ Convocation of Ahmed Kathrada and Barbara Hogan.