Prime Minister Quotes - Page 11

• George Clooney says he's had sex with too many women to ever run for office. He was immediately made Prime Minister of Italy.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Sex, Office

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• The Iraqi prime minister is an anti-Semite. We don't need to spend $200 and $300 and $500 billion dollars bringing democracy to Iraq to turn it over to people who believe that Israel doesn't have a right to defend itself and who refuse to condemn Hezbollah.

  Howard Dean

  Believe, Israel, Iraq

  "Dean Calls Iraqi Prime Minister Anti-Semite, Criticizes Bush For U.S. Visit". www.foxnews.com. July 26, 2006.

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• Nobody has achievements like this ... you cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.

  Brian Mulroney

  Significant Things, Names, Achievement

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• Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.

  Brian Mulroney

  Cabinets, Prime, Ministers

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• For example, the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He's right. A hundred years from now, the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic.

  Brian Mulroney

  Years, Example, Canada

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• The monarchy is so extraordinarily useful. When Britain wins a battle she shouts, God save the Queen; when she loses, she votes down the prime minister.

  Winston Churchill

  Queens, Winning, Battle

  "Churchill v Toynbee" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2006.

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• The Prime Minister is stealing our clothes but he is going to look pretty ridiculous walking around in mine.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Clothes, Looks, Ridiculous

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• It must be a conviction Government. As Prime Minister I could not waste time having internal arguments.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Government, Waste, Wasting Time

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• Gentlemen, I have spent the night thinking about this Peruvian (peace) initiative and I have to tell you that if it is your decision to accept then you will have to find another Prime Minister.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Night, Thinking, Decision

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• The Japanese Prime Minister has apologized for Japan's part in World War II. However, he still hasn't mentioned anything about karaoke.

  David Letterman

  War, Japan, World

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• I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective.

  John Smith

  Thinking, Trying, Weapons

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• The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true.

  Hugh Sidey

  Running, Eye, Men

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• I have never asked a prime minister for anything.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Prime, Ministers

  "Murdoch denies political influence, Cameron disagrees" By Richard Allen Greene, www.cnn.com. April 25, 2012.

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• There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.

  Harold Wilson

  Pay, Prime, Ministers

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• In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Government, Political, Firsts

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• It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state.

  Jose Eduardo Dos Santos

  Confidence, People, Prime

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• Our first Prime Minister saw a country that would be known for its generosity of spirit. And so it is.

  Kim Campbell

  Country, Generosity, Would Be

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• Supposing Catherine Lim was writing about me and not the prime minister... She would not dare, right? Because my posture, my response has been such that nobody doubts that if you take me on, I will put on knuckle-dusters and catch you in a cul de sac... Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no other way you can govern a Chinese society.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Hurt, Writing, Thinking

  "Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and His Ideas". Book by Fook Kwang Han, Sumiko Tan, and Warren Fernandez, 1998.

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• If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in charge of a machine gun unit, that's a very tricky business. We've got to know his background... I'm saying these things because they are real, and if I don't think that, and I think even if today the Prime Minister doesn't think carefully about this, we could have a tragedy.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Religious, Real, Thinking

  Straits Times, September 19, 1999.

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• I think the rest of the world will think we're made, and indeed we are. We've turned out the greatest Prime Minister in the post war years simply because of short term nerves.

  Ann Widdecombe

  War, Thinking, Years

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• You cannot think of Margaret without Denis. There comes a time when every Prime Minister needs someone to give him or her the unvarnished truth, and, in Denis, Margaret had just that.

  John Major

  Thinking, Giving, Needs

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• The Prime Minister, shortly after she came into office, received a sobriquet as the 'Iron Lady'. It arose in the context of remarks which she made about defence against the Soviet Union and its allies; but there was no reason to suppose that the Right Honourable Lady did not welcome and, indeed, take pride in that description. In the next week or two this House, the nation and the Right Honourable Lady herself, will learn of what metal she is made.

  Enoch Powell

  Pride, Next Week, Two

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• Media people should have long noses like an elephant to smell out politicians, mayors, prime ministers and businessmen. We need to know the reality, the good and the bad, not just the appearance.

  Dalai Lama

  Reality, Should Have, Elephants

  "Dalai Lama Laughs Off China's Criticism". News conference in Vancouver, www.theglobeandmail.com. September 08, 2006.

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• I am happy to debate the past with the Prime Minister... I have a big dossier on his past, and I did not even have to sex it up.

  Michael Howard

  Sex, Past, Debate

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• When I was in college, I was belittling the woman who later become my wife for not knowing who Boba Fett was, and she responded by asking me if I knew who the Prime Minister of Israel was. Surprisingly? Not Mon Mothma.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  College, Israel, Knowing

  "Joss Whedon & Brian K. Vaughan talk 'Buffy'". Interview with Joss Whedon, www.cbr.com. September 6, 2007.

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