Prime Minister Quotes - Page 2

• Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Inspiring, Death

  The Malakand Field Force ch. 10 (1898)

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• No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Jobs, Giving, Want

  Interview, Sunday Telegraph (London), 26 Oct. 1969

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• Certainly the international community is putting a lot of pressure on Iran and making clear that its nuclear program must stop. If it stops with the sanctions, the combinations of sanctions, diplomacy, other pressures, I, as the prime minister of Israel, will be the happiest person in the world.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Iran, Community

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• When I warned them [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!

  Winston Churchill

  War, Fighting, Three

  Speech to joint session of Canadian Parliament, Ottawa, 30 Dec. 1941

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• I would not wish to be Prime Minister, dear.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Ironic, Wish, Prime

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• People work hard and save hard to own a car. They do not want to be told that they cannot drive it by a Deputy Prime Minister whose idea of a park and ride scheme is to park one Jaguar and drive away in another.

  William Hague

  Hard Work, Ideas, People

  1999 Of John Prescott. In the House of Commons, 17 Nov.

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• The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Lying, Media, Example

  "Social media and opposition to blame for protests, says Turkish PM" by Constanze Letsch, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2013.

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• How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.

  Golda Meir

  Israel, Territory, Cleansing

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• Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.

  Kenneth Clarke

  Nursing, Prime, Ministers

  "In his own words". www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2009.

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• I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.

  Caroline Rhea

  Thinking, Grew Up, Prime

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• President Obama can find time to meet with a YouTube personality who eats cereal out of a bathtub, but not the prime minister of our ally Israel?

  Greta Van Susteren

  Israel, Cereal, Personality

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• The next Prime Minister walking through that door will be me or Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, you can choose an economy that grows, that creates jobs, that generates the money to ensure a properly funded and improving National Health Service ... and a government that will cut taxes for 30 million hard-working people ... or you can choose the economic chaos of Ed Miliband's Britain.

  David Cameron

  Jobs, Party, Health

  "Cameron challenged on Labour claim". www.gazetteandherald.co.uk. March 30, 2015.

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• I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with a positive vision for the future of the European Union. A future in which Britain wants, and should want, to play a committed and active part.

  David Cameron

  Europe, Play, Vision

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• I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.

  John Major

  Thinking, Roles, Prime

  "John Major tells Leveson inquiry: I was too sensitive about press coverage" by Lisa O'Carroll, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.

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• My pet-sitting day ends around sunset, and it's very satisfying to know that I've made several living beings happy that day. That I left their food bowls sparkling clean and fresh water in their water bowls. That I brushed them so their coats shined, and played with them until all our hearts were beating faster. That I kissed them goodbye and left them with their tails wagging or flipping or at least raised in a happy kind of way. That's a heck of a lot more than any president, pope, prime minister, or potentate can say, and I wouldn't switch places with any of them.

  Blaize Clement

  Goodbye, Sunset, Heart

  Blaize Clement (2009). “Cat Sitter on a Hot Tin Roof: A Dixie Hemingway Mystery”, p.32, Macmillan

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• Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.

  Abdallah II

  Moving, Ambition, Israel

  Abdallah II's Speech at the Mideast summit in Aqaba, Jordan, edition.cnn.com. June 4, 2003.

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• I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing.

  Tony Abbott

  Thinking, Excuse, Prime

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• Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.

  Winston Churchill

  Teaching, Prime, Ministers

  My Early Life (1930) ch. 2

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• I'd like to run for president. Or Prime Minister. I think I could do a better job.

  Thom Yorke

  Running, Jobs, Thinking

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• I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't.

  John Major

  Different, Conservative, Prime

  "John Major: The old man and me". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2012.

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• You don't try and put rockets under prime ministers.

  Andrew Forrest

  Trying, Rockets, Prime

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• Every individual, from the common mechanic, that works in wood or clay, to the prime minister that regulates with the dash of his pen the agriculture, the breeding of cattle, the mining, or the commerce of a nation, will perform his business the better, the better he understands the nature of things,and the more his understanding is enlightened.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Agriculture, Understanding, Woods

  Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, J.R. McCulloch (2013). “History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch”, p.133, Coventry House Publishing

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• I hate the charge, I find it repulsive.I hate even the question [about anti-Semitism ] because people that know me and you heard the prime minister, you heard Ben Netanyahu. He said, I've known Donald Trump for a long time and then he said, forget it.

  Donald Trump

  Hate, Long, People

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• The Germans could not get over the perfidy of it. It was unbelievable that the English, having degenerated to the stage where suffragettes heckled the Prime Minister and defied the police, were going to fight.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Fighting, History, Police

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• [Margaret] Thatcher had just become prime minister; there was talk about whether it was an advance to have a woman prime minister if it was someone with policies like hers: She may be a woman but she isn't a sister, she may be a sister but she isn't a comrade.

  Caryl Churchill

  Leadership, Women, May

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