Prime Quotes - Page 2

• I wish that in the course of my visit to places the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] calls home, all of a sudden, we would reach a clear understanding on how we can resolve the matters. We will be very glad if that happens. Are there any chances? Perhaps.

  Vladimir Putin

  Home, Understanding, Wish

  Source: www.rt.com

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• As regards humanitarian issues and how to handle them, that was the Prime Minister's [Shinzō Abe] initiative. He brought the matter up at our last meeting in Lima and asked me straightforwardly whether we would agree to let Japanese citizens travel on a visa-free basis, resolve the issue in such a way as to enable them to visit the South Kurils, visit their native areas. I said at once that it was quite possible.

  Vladimir Putin

  Issues, Citizens, Matter

  Source: www.rt.com

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• I think in terms of best players, I would have to say Ronaldo, the real Ronaldo, the Brazilian one. I was fortunate enough to have a year with him at Real Madrid. He was at the end of his career and was probably half the player he was. But, in his prime, he was quite simply astonishing.

  Michael Owen

  Real, Thinking, Player

  Source: www.insidefutbol.com

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• Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.

  Chuck Eddy

  Rocks, Band, Vans

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• I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Past, Directors, Memoir

  "I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

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• Blow your brains out and do it right, make sure it's on prime time and on Saturday night.

  Ray Davies

  Art, Blow, Night

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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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• 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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• 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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• The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army.

  Conan O'Brien

  War, Army, Government

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• The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.

  Dave Barry

  Party, Sacrifice, Doubt

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• I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.

  James Cash Penney

  Believe, Hard Work, Life Is Hard

  James Cash Penney, Robert Walter Bruère (1931). “J.C. Penney: the Man with a Thousand Partners: An Autobiography of J.C. Penney”

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• Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.

  Mortimer Adler

  Mother, Children, Example

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• As Prime Minister of Israel, I will introduce a bill into the Knesset that will simply pay the Arabs not to shoot at the Jews.

  Roseanne Barr

  Israel, Pay, Bills

  "12 Crazy Things Presidential Candidate Roseanne Barr Has Said About The United States" by Jordan Teicher, www.businessinsider.com. February 3, 2012.

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• Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu made it real clear. They're willing to be generous on some other concessions but not on the border issue. And I don't blame him.

  Herman Cain

  Real, Issues, Borders

  "Cain: 'President Threw Israel Under the Bus'". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. May 20, 2011.

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• The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men.

  Ayn Rand

  Independent, Men, Rights

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.76, Penguin

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• Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Football, Team, Party

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• Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.

  Christina Rossetti

  Time, Ivy, Perfect

  'Oh Roses for the Flush'

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• There is continual spring, and harvest there Continual, both meeting at one time: For both the boughs do laughing blossoms bear, And with fresh colours deck the wanton prime, And eke attonce the heavy trees they climb, Which seem to labour under their fruits load: The whiles the joyous birds make their pastime Amongst the shady leaves, their sweet above, And their true loves without suspicion tell abroad.

  Edmund Spenser

  Sweet, Time, Spring

  1590 Of the Garden of Adonis. The Faerie Queen, bk.3, canto 6, stanza 42.

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• In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.

  Peter Singer

  Respect, Unique, Thinking

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• We don't stop talking about how the world might be better just because we have no chance of making it to Prime Minister. We are all politicians. We are all artists. In an open society everything the mind and hands can achieve is our birthright. It is up to us to claim it.

  Stephen Fry

  Artist, Hands, Talking

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• What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically an economic recovery.

  Eric Cantor

  Recovery, Yesterday, President

  "Cantor: Stimulus 'not a success story'" by Andy Barr, www.politico.com. June 9, 2009.

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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 want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.

  David Cameron

  Want, Kingdoms, England

  David Cameron, Dylan Jones (2008). “Cameron on Cameron: conversations with Dylan Jones”

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