Prime Minister Quotes - Page 7

• I think women across Australia, particularly, are a bit fed up with this constant attack and belittling of women in politics, and particularly the role of a female as a Prime Minister.

  Christine Milne

  Thinking, Australia, Female

  "Meet the Press" with Kathryn Robinson, www.news.com.au. March 24, 2013.

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• They said that President Bush's war in Iraq has cost the former Spanish Prime Minister his job. So President Bush isn't losing American jobs anymore, he's branching out to other countries.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Jobs, War

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• When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government fell in May 1940, the nation turned to Churchill. At last, his unique qualities were brought to bear on a supreme challenge, and with his unshakable optimism, his heroic vision, and above all, his splendid speeches, Churchill roused the spirit of the British people.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Unique, Government, People

  Gretchen Rubin (2004). “Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life”, p.17, Random House

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• The Prime Minister, a specialist in calling in the locksmith after the horses had fled - the whole herd in fact - and the barn in ruins, ended the week with a great raft of ethics proposals for cabinet, leadership candidates, backbenchers and lobbyists. I think it is more than fair to ask: Why wait for the middle of his third term to institute what the public would have welcomed at the beginning of his first?

  Rex Murphy

  Horse, Thinking, Waiting

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• It is the only time that I can ever remember the Prime Minister reading out the conclusions of a meeting that did not take place. They were already written before it started.

  Michael Heseltine

  Reading, Remember, Prime

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• History should remember Blair and Bush as the killers of children, or as the lying prime minister and president.

  Mahathir Mohamad

  Children, Lying, President

  "Mahathir Criticises Bush, Blair". www.thestar.com.my. February 05, 2007.

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• The Canadian Prime Minister said Canada would lend the U.S. its full military support. You know what that means: Both tanks.

  Jay Leno

  Military, Mean, Support You

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• The United States has renewed our leadership in the Asia-Pacific, prime Minister Abe is leading Japan to a new role on the world stage.

  Shinzo Abe

  Leadership, Japan, Roles

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• In this time of challenge, I am asking the prime minister to address Congress on the grave threats radical Islam and Iran pose to our security and way of life.

  John Boehner

  Life, Iran, Challenges

  "Boehner invites Netanyahu to address Congress on Iran, after Obama veto threat" by Mike Emanuel, www.foxnews.com. January 21, 2015.

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• Nothing had excited me-the huge cars, the entourages, the bodyguards, the policeman jumping to attention, all meant nothing to me ... till I came to the old man's office. (On becoming prime minister)

  Shimon Peres

  Men, Jumping, Car

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• Pakistan's political leadership needs to make a clear choice to fight the Taliban decisively, not with half measures, the burden is on Prime Minister Sharif to show he can unite the country to defend its children.

  Bruce Riedel

  Leadership, Country, Children

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• The idea of Jewish settlements under Palestinian sovereignty, as was suggested by someone in the Prime Minister's office, is very dangerous and reflects an irrationality of values.

  Naftali Bennett

  Ideas, Office, Prime

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• It is a very heavy responsibility [to be a prime-minister] to make, but someone has to make it for our country and I am thrilled and honoured to have that opportunity and that responsibility.

  Tony Abbott

  Country, Responsibility, Opportunity

  Interview with Michelle Grattan, www.sbs.com.au. March 28, 2014.

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• There are cycles in American politics. US cycles are even more pronounced because we Americans have a totally entrepreneurial presidential system. We don't have parliamentary opposition parties with a shadow prime minister and shadow cabinets. Every four years, the opposition reinvents itself.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Party, Years, Presidential

  "Obama Is Average". Interview with Klaus Brinkbäumer and Gregor-Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. October 26, 2009.

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• I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister.

  Tony Abbott

  Balance, Ordinary, Accepting

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• I was a very senior minister in the Howard government and I sat around this particular table [in the prime ministerial office] in many discussions. The difference between being a senior minister and the prime minister is that ultimately the buck does stop with the prime minister and in the end the prime minister has to make those critical judgement calls and that's the big difference.

  Tony Abbott

  Senior, Differences, Government

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• If you want to run for Prime Minister, you can. If you don't, that's wonderful, too. Shave your armpits, don't shave them, wear flats one day, heels the next. These things are so irrelevant and surface to what it is all really about, and I wish people wouldn't get caught up in that. We want to empower women to do exactly what they want, to be true to themselves, to have the opportunities to develop.

  Emma Watson

  Running, Opportunity, People

  "Emma Watson, The December 2014 ELLE Cover Interview" by Lorraine Candy, www.elle.com. June 03, 2015.

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• I'm the f***ing Prime Minister!

  Tony Blair

  Prime, Ministers

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• I was recruited by the former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. And I never forgot his key message to me when he was encouraging me to come in. He said: “You must hold fast to your values. If you have to compromise your values in order to join us, you lose your value to us.”

  Vivian Balakrishnan

  Keys, Order, Messages

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• His [Pitt's] successor as prime minister was Mr. Addington, who was a friend of Mr. Pitt, just as Mr. Pitt was a friend of Mr. Addington; but their respective friends were each other's enemies. Mr. Fox, who was Mr. Pitt's enemy (although many of his friends were Mr. Pitt's friends), had always stood uncompromisingly for peace with France and held dangerously liberal opinions; nevertheless, in 1804, Mr. Fox and Mr. Pitt got together to overthrow Mr. Pitt's friend Mr. Addington, who was pushing the war effort with insufficient vigor.

  J. Christopher Herold

  War, Effort, Enemy

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• No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.

  Neil Kinnock

  War, House, Majority

  "Neil Kinnock: 'This election is about now and the future'". Interview with David Hare, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2010.

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• I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.

  Ken Livingstone

  Voice, Sound, Prime

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• Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say 'Bless You'.

  Bernard Levin

  Blow, Men, Noses

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• Well, Australians should speak for the national interests of Australia, and whatever role former Australian prime ministers may have, one of the things you do is speak frankly about the country as you see the country's best interests, you know?

  Paul Keating

  Country, Australia, May

  "Interview with former prime minister Paul Keating". "Lateline" with Tone Jones, www.abc.net.au. November 15, 2012.

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• You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.

  Paul Keating

  Two, Australia Day, Government

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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