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• A prime minister has to keep a certain balance when dealing with sensitive issues.

  Ehud Olmert

  Issues, Balance, Sensitive

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• A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled.

  Ehud Olmert

  Promise, Ministers, Fulfilled

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• Every prime minister... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.

  Ehud Olmert

  Responsibility, People, Ministers

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• I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Israel, Years, Here I Am

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• I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Lying, Moving, Believe

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• But at the end of the day, when the military command looks up, it sees us — the minister of defense and the prime minister. When we look up, we see nothing but the sky above us.

  Ehud Barak

  Military, Sky, The End Of The Day

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• In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of assassination.

  John Diefenbaker

  Leadership, Canada, Ministers

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• For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.

  Wole Soyinka

  Justice, Humanity, Conditions

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• My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time... Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Nice, Believe, Home

  Neville Chamberlain's "Peace For Our Time" Speech in front of 10 Downing St., eudocs.lib.byu.edu. September 30, 1938.

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• The prime role of a leader is to offer an example of courage and sacrifice.

  Regis Debray

  Leadership, Sacrifice, Example

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• I've got a long way to go to being the ultimate best, but I think my time is now. And I'm starting to enter my prime.

  Kevin Durant

  Basketball, Thinking, Long

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• George Clooney says he's had sex with too many women to ever run for office. He was immediately made Prime Minister of Italy.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Sex, Office

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• A cheerful life is what the Muses love. A soaring spirit is their prime delight.

  William Wordsworth

  Cheerful, Delight, Spirit

  William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.186

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• So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet – big deal.

  Will Self

  Ministers, Bigs, Deals

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• But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly.

  Clare Short

  Country, Lying, Iraq

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• The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Two, Luck, Universe

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• Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

  Aeschylus

  Done, Firsts, Causes

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.72, University of Chicago Press

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• It is extremely important that adequate provision be made for reasonable levels of income to them, for the care of the children which they must leave at home or in school, and for protection of the family unit. One of the prime objectives of the Commission on the Status of Women, which I appointed 18 months ago, is to develop a program to accomplish these purposes.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Home, School

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.465, Best Books on

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• The present tax codes inhibit the mobility and formation of capital, add complexities and inequities which undermine the morale of the taxpayer, and make tax avoidance rather than market factors a prime consideration in too many economic decisions.

  John F. Kennedy

  Decision, Add, Mobility

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.74, Best Books on

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• The Iraqi prime minister is an anti-Semite. We don't need to spend $200 and $300 and $500 billion dollars bringing democracy to Iraq to turn it over to people who believe that Israel doesn't have a right to defend itself and who refuse to condemn Hezbollah.

  Howard Dean

  Believe, Israel, Iraq

  "Dean Calls Iraqi Prime Minister Anti-Semite, Criticizes Bush For U.S. Visit". www.foxnews.com. July 26, 2006.

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• Being the chief minister of a regional government is just a pastime compared with the hellish job of being prime minister of two different communities brought together.

  Elio Di Rupo

  Jobs, Government, Two

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• Though essaying but a sportive sail, I was driven from my course by a blast re sistless; and ill-provided, young, and bowed by the brunt of things before my prime, still fly before the gale. ... If after all these fearful fainting trances, the verdict be, the golden haven was not gained; yet in bold quest thereof, better to sink in boundless deeps than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do.

  Herman Melville

  Giving, Quests, Wrecks

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.4644, Delphi Classics

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• And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real repute in that small but high hushed world which I might not be unreasonably ambitious of ; if hereafter I shall do anything that, upon the whole, a man might rather have done than to have left undone ; if, at my death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS. in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honour and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

  Herman Melville

  Real, College, Men

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.108

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• I believe, in my prime, I could have fought with anybody alive.

  Rocky Marciano

  Believe, Alive, I Believe

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• And writers say, as the most forward bud
  Is eaten by the canker ere it blow,
  Even so by love the young and tender wit
  Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud,
  Losing his verdure even in the prime,
  And all the fair effects of future hopes.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Stupidity, Bud

  William Shakespeare (1858). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.4

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