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• People work hard and save hard to own a car. They do not want to be told that they cannot drive it by a Deputy Prime Minister whose idea of a park and ride scheme is to park one Jaguar and drive away in another.

  William Hague

  Hard Work, Ideas, People

  1999 Of John Prescott. In the House of Commons, 17 Nov.

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• I thank the Prime Minister for his remarks about me. Debating with him at the Dispatch Box has been exciting, fascinating, fun, an enormous challenge and, from my point of view, wholly unproductive in every sense. I am told that in my time at the Dispatch Box I have asked the Prime Minister 1,118 direct questions, but no one has counted the direct answers-it may not take long.

  William Hague

  Fun, Views, Long

  House of Commons, Prime Minister's Questions, July 18, 2001.

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• But, clearly, the prime minister has laid down some ground rules which any functioning democratic state would insist upon, having to do with, you know, arms belonging to the state, not to -- not in private hands. The current circumstances come out of what I think is a very important and indeed appropriate action that the Iraqi government has taken.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Taken, Thinking, Government

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• We have had some bad incidents and there continue to be allegations of others which will be investigated; but overwhelmingly American forces there, putting their lives on the line every day, protecting Iraqis, helping to liberate them, that is appreciated by the Iraqi people and by the Prime Minister.

  Condoleezza Rice

  People, Lines, Helping

  "Transcript: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on 'FNS'". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. June 05, 2006.

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• Every individual, from the common mechanic, that works in wood or clay, to the prime minister that regulates with the dash of his pen the agriculture, the breeding of cattle, the mining, or the commerce of a nation, will perform his business the better, the better he understands the nature of things,and the more his understanding is enlightened.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Agriculture, Understanding, Woods

  Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, J.R. McCulloch (2013). “History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch”, p.133, Coventry House Publishing

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• When I was in college, I was belittling the woman who later become my wife for not knowing who Boba Fett was, and she responded by asking me if I knew who the Prime Minister of Israel was. Surprisingly? Not Mon Mothma.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  College, Israel, Knowing

  "Joss Whedon & Brian K. Vaughan talk 'Buffy'". Interview with Joss Whedon, www.cbr.com. September 6, 2007.

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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

  Ministers, Prime Minister

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• The prime minister of Ireland will be celebrating St. Patrick's Day at the White House. So finally the Secret Service agents will have a drinking buddy.

  Conan O'Brien

  Drinking, White, House

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• I am in the prime of senility.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Age, Aging, Senility

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• Gandhi wanted to meet with Churchill, his most bitter foe, when he visited London in 1931- but it didn't happen. Churchill wanted to go to India personally as prime minister in 1942 to negotiate a final settlement on India with Gandhi and the other nationalist leaders - but the fall of Singapore prevented it from happening.

  Arthur L. Herman

  Fall, Leader, London

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• We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Morning, Sunday, Night

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• We threw passes enough that we were prime to catch them and get up to speed. I think we will be fine there.

  Les Miles

  Thinking, Lsu, Speed

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• In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower administration believed its actions were justified for strategic reasons, but the coup was clearly a setback for Iran's political development and it is easy to see now why many Iranians continue to resent this intervention by America in their internal affairs.

  Madeleine Albright

  America, Iran, Political

  "Secretary of State Albright Announces Easing of U.S. Trade Ban on Iran". Speech at CNN, www.cnn.com. March 17, 2000.

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• I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime of their lives. I raised my children as a single mother when my husband was arrested and held for eight years without a conviction - a hostage to my political career.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Mother, Brother, Children

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• Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.

  James Dean

  Trust, Two, Belief

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You know, not everybody can afford to pay $58 for prime rib or $650 for a bottle of wine. My friends and I cook for regular families who worry about feeding their kids and paying the bills.

  Paula Deen

  Kids, Wine, Worry

  "Paula Deen Tells Fellow TV Chef Anthony Bourdain to 'Get a Life'". www.foxnews.com. August 19, 2011.

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• God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.

  Paul Erdos

  Play, Numbers, May

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• The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we drink in every night.

  John Piper

  Night, Apples, Pie

  John Piper (2013). “A Hunger for God”, p.17, SPCK

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• The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.

  Jim Trelease

  Family, Children, Childhood

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• How many there are ... who imagine that because Jesus paid it all, they need pay nothing, forgetting that the prime object of their salvation was that they should follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ in bringing back a lost world to God.

  Lottie Moon

  Jesus, Easter, Missionary

  Lottie Moon, Keith Harper (2002). “Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings”, p.224, Mercer University Press

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• O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.

  John Milton

  Grief, Loss, Dark

  John Milton (1853). “The poetical works of John Milton, with life. Complete ed”, p.359

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• The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Kings, Men, Ordinary

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• I guess the language that Justice Ginsburg used at the closing of the VMI (United States v. Virginia Military Institute) case is an important thing; it resonates with me: 'A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.'

  Ted Olson

  Military, Rights, Virginia

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• When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Play, Imagination, Feelings

  "Four Screenplays of Ingmar Bergman" by Ingmar Bergman, (Introduction), 1960.

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