Prime Minister Quotes - Page 16

• The Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] proposed advancing to a new level of economic engagement, putting forward eight lines of cooperation in the most important and interesting areas both for Russia and for Japan.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Eight, Japan

  Source: www.rt.com

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• The Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] also highlighted the need to address general humanitarian issues. We already mentioned one of these issues: visa-free travel by Japanese citizens to the South Kuril Islands.

  Vladimir Putin

  Islands, Issues, Needs

  Source: www.rt.com

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• I certainly will make sure that everybody understands that I'm the prime minister of all of Israel's citizens, and I really believe that. It's something that my actions have shown. It's not a question of fence-mending, it's a question of real belief, and it's there. I don't have to fabricate it.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Real, Believe, Israel

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Prime Minister Golda Meir said that the Middle East will see peace when Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel. On behalf of many Arab mothers, this is one mother who not only loves her children, but also loves Israel's children.

  Nonie Darwish

  Mother, Children, Hate

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• What every prime minister struggles with and every leader struggles with is how to balance the two objectives; firstly that of ensuring that all asylum seekers are treated generously and humanely in accordance with the convention and secondly doing everything you can to eliminate or at least discourage people smuggling. And it's a very, very difficult balance.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Struggle, Two, People

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• It is now in Gordon Brown's - and the Labour party's - best interests for those seeking the prime minister's immediate departure to back off.

  David Blunkett

  Party, Departure, Prime

  "Blair faces crisis over resignations" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2006.

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• This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a strange fund of enthusiasm, a quality which ought never to be possessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Prime Minister of England. The Bishop of London sympathies with everything that is earnest; but what is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Errors, Quality, Bishops

  Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Queen Victoria, November 4, 1868.

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• No British Prime Minister of the last seventy years has been more harshly stereotyped than Stanley Baldwin. No one has been so much ignored, after the initial judgements of contemporaries had been made.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Years, Judgement, Lasts

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• Today the Israeli government continues seizures of Palestinian land for settlements, military incursions into surrounding countries and denial of the right of Palestinians expelled by terror to return. Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, is a war criminal who should be in prison, not in office. Israel's own Kahan commission found that Sharon shared responsibility for the Sabra and Shatila massacres.

  Ken Livingstone

  Country, Military, War

  "This is about Israel, not anti-semitism" by Ken Livingstone, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2005.

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• In the last five years I used to go to Zen practice once a month, but since I assumed the post of prime minister it's been much harder.

  Shinzo Abe

  Years, Practice, Lasts

  "Postcard From Japan: Talking Zen, Abenomics, Social Networking and the Constitution With Prime Minister Shinzo Abe". Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2013.

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• In Japan, usually, once you become prime minister, you do not have a second chance. Probably the reason why that was not the case this time is because Japan is facing an increasingly challenging situation.

  Shinzo Abe

  Second Chance, Japan, Challenges

  "Interview with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe". www.washingtonpost.com. February 20, 2013.

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• I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had it so ... prudent.

  Tony Blair

  Party, People, Leader

  Tony Blair's Speech to the Labour Party Conference, news.bbc.co.uk. September 28, 1999.

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• Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.

  Brian Clough

  Prime, Ministers, Caught

  Quoted in Phil Shaw The Book of Football Quotations (2003).

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• I thank the Prime Minister for his remarks about me. Debating with him at the Dispatch Box has been exciting, fascinating, fun, an enormous challenge and, from my point of view, wholly unproductive in every sense. I am told that in my time at the Dispatch Box I have asked the Prime Minister 1,118 direct questions, but no one has counted the direct answers-it may not take long.

  William Hague

  Fun, Views, Long

  House of Commons, Prime Minister's Questions, July 18, 2001.

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• The Prime Minister and the Chief Ministers are one team. The Cabinet Ministers and the State Ministers are another team. The Civil Servants at the Centre and the States are yet another team. This is the only way we can successfully develop India.

  Narendra Modi

  Team, Cabinets, India

  Source: www.deccanchronicle.com

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• I certainly think one of the really amazing things about Mr. Trump's victory is there's been an immediate - what one of my friends calls a jump-to-the-Trump in Australia. So you've got politicians of all sides looking at this amazing result in America and thinking, I'd like a bit of that. Can I have a bit of that? And so the opposition leader has been talking about immigrants stealing people's jobs. The prime minister has started talking about media elites in exactly the same terms as President-elect Trump.

  Richard Glover

  Jobs, Laughter, Thinking

  "Non-Politicians Talking Politics: Australian Radio Host Richard Glover". "Weekend Edition Saturday", www.npr.org. November 26, 2016.

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• Margaret [Hodge] is obviously entitled to do what she wishes to do. I would ask her to think for a moment, a Tory prime minister resigned, Britain's voted to leave the European Union, there are massive political issues to be addressed, is it really a good idea to start a big debate in the Labour Party when I was elected less than a year ago with a very large mandate not from MPs, I fully concede and understand that, but from the party members as a whole.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Party, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• A reporter told me it is very rare to see a woman of my age in the movies. Right! In the movies! But they have been for so long in very serious and important positions in life: scientists, prime ministers, candidates to be the president.

  Sonia Braga

  Long, Important, Age

  "Q&A: Sonia Braga plays the role of her life at 66". Associated Press Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 2, 2016.

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• The last time I was in Japan as President of Russia was 11 years ago, if memory serves. I later visited in my capacity as Prime Minister.

  Vladimir Putin

  Memories, Russia, Japan

  Source: www.rt.com

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• In 2000 the then Prime Minister of Japan [Yoshirō Mori] asked me to return to this process, this conversation, these talks, and to do so, incidentally, on the basis of the 1956 declaration. I agreed. Since then we have conducted dialogue in this regard but I cannot say that our Japanese partners and friends have remained within the limits of the 1956 declaration.

  Vladimir Putin

  Japan, Limits, Return

  Source: www.rt.com

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• Israel has done enormous amount of, for peace. I myself have done things that no prime minister previously had done.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Done, Prime

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I assumed the leadership within the Commonwealth for the fight against apartheid. I was very much assisted by Brian Mulroney, the Prime Minister of Canada, [and] Rajiv Gandhi, when he became the Prime Minister of India. And there were trade sanctions.

  Bob Hawke

  Fighting, India, Canada

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• We were great mates [with Rajiv Gandhi]: very, very, very close friends. In fact, on my visit to India as Prime Minister, we were going to his home for dinner. There were two aspects I remember: one is him saying how he had trouble with his security people, because they insisted he wears a vest. He said it was very uncomfortable and he often took it off, but of course, in the end, it wouldn't have mattered if he'd been wearing three vests - he would have been gone.

  Bob Hawke

  Home, Two, People

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• I think it's important not to start drawing parallels, for example, between Theresa May, a fairly traditional conservative politician, who's now prime minister and Le Pen in France. Those aren't the same and the situation in each country is different.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Thinking, Drawing

  Source: time.com

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• We differ with the Israeli Government about a number of things, and they know that. In the past, I have discussed with Prime Minister [Ariel] Sharon these issues. The fact that we differ about something or the other shouldn't be a matter of strain.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Past, Government, Numbers

  Source: www.gov.za

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