Prime Minister Quotes - Page 3

• Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?

  Joseph Stalin

  Evil, Division, Pope

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• I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.

  Tony Abbott

  Thinking, Australia, Listening

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• On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government.

  Kim Campbell

  Government, Reform, Canada

  Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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• It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister

  Margaret Thatcher

  Years, Investing, Prime

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• I'm a big fan of Israel and frankly a strong prime minister is a strong Israel

  Donald Trump

  Strong, Israel, Fans

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• Israel is extraordinary blessed to have [Benjamin Netanyahu] as prime minister at this pivotal time in history and so is the United States of America to hear his voice against this deal.

  Lou Dobbs

  Blessed, Israel, Voice

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• This is why, as a prime minister of Israel, I can promise you one more thing: Even if Israel has to stand alone, Israel will stand. But I know that Israel does not stand alone. I know that America stands with Israel.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, America, Promise

  Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress, www.washingtonpost.com. March 3, 2015.

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• The USA is a threat to world peace. Who are they to pretend that they are the policemen of the world, the ones that should decide for the people of Iraq what should be done with their government and their leadership. All that [the USA] wants is Iraqi oil. [Blair is] simply the foreign minister of the United States. He is no longer prime minister of Britain.

  Nelson Mandela

  Government, Usa, Oil

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• "What war?" said the Prime Minister sharply. "No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I'll be damned," he said defiantly, "if they shall have a war without consulting me. What's a cabinet for, if there's not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for anyway?"

  Evelyn Waugh

  War, Thinking, Should Have

  EVELYN WAUGH (1958). “VILE BODIES & BLACK MISCHIEF”

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• [N]o clear steps have actually been taken to apprehend and prosecute those known to have been in command of the camp or the forces operating there....The new government of Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has pledged to act. It must now generate the political will to act. The protection of those responsible for this crime can no longer be tolerated.

  Ben Cardin

  Taken, Government, Political Will

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• Some information has to remain in the privy of the office of the Prime Minister and the ministers for the proper administration of government.

  Jean Chretien

  Government, Office, Information

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• I am not a newcomer, you know, so I want to be judged for what I did when I was prime minister last time in Italy and president of the European Commission for more than five years.

  Romano Prodi

  Years, President, Want

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• I think the Prime Minister is the first to acknowledge that Malaysia's still got some work to do. Just like the United States, by the way, has some work to do on these issues. Human Rights Watch probably has a list of things they think we should be doing as a government.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Issues, Rights

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• I would sooner be prime minister of the moon than run another marathon. I've been really lucky. I didn't have any toenails fall off or anything disgusting like that. I still have all three nipples.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Running, Fall, Moon

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• I think the Prime Minister has embarked on a journey and he has no idea where he's taking us.

  John Hewson

  Journey, Thinking, Ideas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• The prime minister is 12 years old. She looks after 20 goats in the morning, but she's prime minister in the evening.

  Bunker Roy

  Morning, Motivation, Inspiration

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• When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare and health and deteriorating roads, into the commander-in-chief. And it's just become almost unpatriotic to describe Bush's fallacious and ill-advised and mistaken and sometimes misleading actions.

  Jimmy Carter

  Change, War, President

  "Mr President for good" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2004.

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• My main mission when I became Prime Minister, was to keep Singapore going and Singapore has been kept going. So, I'm happy with what I've done for Singapore.

  Goh Chok Tong

  Moving On, Happy, Moving Forward

  Interview With Lorraine Hahn, www.nas.gov.sg. January 24, 2004.

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• One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.

  Alex Cox

  Law, Study, Prime

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• The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill.

  Denis Thatcher

  Country, Spring, Party

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• We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Couple, Politics, Sometimes

  'The Unbearable Bassington' (1912)

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• Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative.

  Stockwell Day

  Party, Opportunity, Government

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• There are Americans will find it difficult to believe that the Prime Minister can simply impose candidates on ridings, and can so efficiently move individuals out of private life and into the Cabinet with virtually no resort to the electorate.

  Stockwell Day

  Believe, Moving, Riding

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