Prime Quotes - Page 28

• Media people should have long noses like an elephant to smell out politicians, mayors, prime ministers and businessmen. We need to know the reality, the good and the bad, not just the appearance.

  Dalai Lama

  Reality, Should Have, Elephants

  "Dalai Lama Laughs Off China's Criticism". News conference in Vancouver, www.theglobeandmail.com. September 08, 2006.

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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, Ministers

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• Number is divided into even and odd. Even number is divided into the following: evenly even, evenly uneven, and unevenly uneven. Odd number is divided into the following: prime and incomposite, composite, and a third intermediate class (mediocris) which in a certain way is prime and incomposite but in another way secondary and composite.

  Isidore of Seville

  Class, Numbers, Way

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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 Liberal Party has dealt with the spill motion and now this matter is behind us, we think that when you elect a government, when you elect a prime minister, you deserve to keep that government and that prime minister until you have a chance to change your mind.

  Tony Abbott

  Change, Party, Thinking

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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, Ministers

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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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• 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've done my "mind over matter" movies, and I think probably that people aren't really interested in seeing me do that anymore. I think I'm kind of past my prime to do dramatic films. I think it'd become kind of like almost a pathetic cry out to be recognized as a serious drama actor.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Drama, Past, Thinking

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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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• 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 some issues where ministers should come and talk to the prime minister, if the prime minister hasn't already talked to them. Any issue which a minister thinks is going to be profoundly controversial, where we do not have a clear existing position, it is important that there be a conversation between the minister and the prime minister. I think they all understand that and I think it is working very well.

  Tony Abbott

  Thinking, Issues, Important

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

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• My dad, a mathematician, raised me to believe that mathematics is beautiful, so math is a part of my imaginative terrain. In my late 20s I wrote several 11-line poems because I wanted to create poems that couldn't be uniformly divided into couplets, tercets, or quatrains, 11 being a prime number.

  James Arthur

  Beautiful, Dad, Believe

  "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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• India me aap Prime Minister ko ek baar katghare me khada kar sakte hain. Par Sachin Tendulkar par ungli nahi utha Sakte.

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  India, Cricket, Ministers

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• Prime Minister Jan Dhan Yojana is a reflection of how rich India's poor are at heart. Without any obligation to put any money in the 0 balance accounts, they didn't open an empty account.

  Narendra Modi

  Heart, Reflection, Empowerment

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• I'd tax the Daily Mail [if I were a Prime Minister] so high no one could afford to buy it. I hate that paper, I think it's really vicious. I picked one up the other day and every single page is about hate. It's just so negative.

  Jason Flemyng

  Hate, Thinking, Negative

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Every season hath its pleasure; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby treasuries Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time.

  Thomas Moore

  Spring, Autumn, Rubies

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• I am happy to debate the past with the Prime Minister... I have a big dossier on his past, and I did not even have to sex it up.

  Michael Howard

  Sex, Past, Debate

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• He (Gorton) is not fit to hold the great office of Prime Minister.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Party, Office, Fit

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• People still laugh at me in politics, they think I won't make it; but I think I will, after Harold Wilson, I will be your next Chancellor to become Prime Minister.

  Imran Khan

  Thinking, People, Laughing

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• In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

  Alan Clark

  Inevitable Death, Political, Politics

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