Prime Minister Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Ideas, Worry

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• Stephen Harper, who's the prime minister of Canada, he is saying that this - we have to give him a majority government, otherwise there will be a Separatist coalition. And he says it every minute.

  Rick Mercer

  Government, Giving, Majority

  "Rick Mercer, Hot On The Canadian Campaign Trail". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. April 23, 2011.

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• Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Justice, Hypocrisy, Envy

  c.1874 Letter.

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• I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.

  Ken Livingstone

  Hard Work, Might, Enough

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• When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Three, Four, Prime

  "Brought to book". www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2001.

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• I'm disrespectful towards authority. I think the prime minister of Ireland is a gobshite.

  Michael O'Leary

  Thinking, Disrespectful, Authority

  "Tthe Shallow Spcialism Of Hating Michael O'Leary" by Brendan, www.spiked-online.com. June 25, 2010.

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• 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 prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.

  John Bercow

  Jobs, Team, Party

  "'Low-grade, sub-standard, downmarket drivel': House of Commons Speaker in angry rant at critics of him and his wife" by Tom McTague, www.mirror.co.uk. August 14, 2012.

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• I'd be prouder still to say I was Canada's 10th woman prime minister.

  Kim Campbell

  Canada, Prime, Ministers

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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 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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• We've got a [Canadian] prime minister who seems to be intent on destroying our health system and education system. But I have gotten a thicker skin. I can get angry about these things without feeling like vomiting, if you know what I mean.

  Jane Jacobs

  Mean, Feelings, Skins

  Source: www.metropolismag.com

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• Communication is the conduit of leadership from the Prime Minister down to the leading hand of a small group of council workers fixing the roads. Leadership uncommunicated is leadership unrequited!

  Peter Cosgrove

  Leadership, Communication, Media

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