Prime Minister Quotes - Page 14

• I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them.

  Shinzo Abe

  Taken, Heart, Japan

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• As prime minister, I will never make a decision that will be an injustice to Serbia and its citizens.

  Ivica Dacic

  Decision, Citizens, Injustice

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• We went all the way down the Himalayan chain for a day and a half. That was magnificent, except the Chinese told us they were going to shoot us down if we came out the far end. So I spent a lot of my time contacting former Prime Minister Tony Blair begging him to tell the Chinese we were coming in this direction by mistake and could he please say we have no nasty motives for flying into their territory.

  Richard Branson

  Mistake, Adventure, Flying

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• By my count, the Deputy Prime Minister has sworn an oath of loyalty and service to Her Majesty no fewer than four times in the last two years, yet he has used his position as a minister of the Crown as a podium from which to rail against our history and our heritage. The minister says that instead of the monarchy he would prefer an entirely Canadian institution, but he fails to recognize that the monarchy is as Canadian as the House of Commons itself.

  Elsie Wayne

  Loyalty, Years, Two

  Elsie Wayne during House of Commons Debates, www.parl.gc.ca. October 8, 2002.

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• The trade agreement which I had the privilege of signing with your Prime Minister last autumn is tangible evidence of the desire of the people of both countries to practice what they preach when they speak of the good neighbor. In the solution of the grave problems that face the world today, frank dealing, cooperation and a spirit of give and take between nations is more important than ever before.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Autumn, Agreement

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• Nearly forty years ago, a distinguished Prime Minister of this country ... said, 'They may not be angels but they are at least our friends.'* I must say that I do not think that we probably demonstrated in that forty years that we are angels yet, but I hope we have demonstrated that we are at least friends.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Angel, Thinking

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.383, Best Books on

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• By downplaying clear targets and frameworks, ... the Prime Minister is ignoring calls from UK companies who want a clear framework to operate within now. There has been a lot of discussion about the false choice between targets and technologies, but the reality is that without both we cannot achieve either.

  Tony Juniper

  Technology, Reality, Choices

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• New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Party, Two, Ambassadors

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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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• Any time, every time, you can damn the Prime Minister and so long as it is not a lie and a criminal lie, nothing happens to you.  You can say a lot of things.  You can write books about him, damning him.  So long as it is not a libel, go ahead.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Lying, Book, Writing

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• What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Kings, Jobs, Queens

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• If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Would Be, Prime, Ministers

  "Buckley: Bush Not A True Conservative" by Amy Clark, www.cbsnews.com. July 22, 2006.

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• My Prime Minister regards the economy as our highest priority and forgets that economics and ecology are derived from the same Greek word, oikos, meaning household or domain. Ecology is the study of home, while economics is its management. Ecologists try to define the conditions and principles that enable a species to survive and flourish. Yet in elevating the economy above those principles, we seem to think we are immune to the laws of nature. We have to put the ‘eco’ back into economics.

  David Suzuki

  Home, Thinking, Law

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• I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president

  Indra Nooyi

  Mother, Dream, School

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• I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.

  Lalu Prasad Yadav

  Time, One Day, India

  "India's man for all seasons" by Siddharth Srivastava, www.atimes.com. September 29, 2004.

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• It is almost impossible to say the name of Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawat without adding 'give a dog a bone'

  Rory Bremner

  Dog, Names, Giving

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• Germany is the place where when Hitler was the prime minister and supreme commander, he burned over six million Jews. This is because Hitler and all German people knew that Israelis are not people who are working in the interest of the world and that is why they burned the Israelis alive with gas in the soil of Germany.

  Idi Amin

  People, Six, Germany

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• Of course I want to be [prime minister].

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Want, Prime, Ministers

  "Jeremy Corbyn faces shadow cabinet mutiny over Trident". www.telegraph.co.uk. September 30, 2015.

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• So little of what makes a democracy work is written down. So much of it is just the things you don't do. There are a lot of things that a prime minister or a president can do and they don't do them because it never occurs to them to do them.

  David Frum

  Democracy, President, Littles

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• We're not free because other people are nice, maybe other people aren't nice that day. We're free because we expect the institutions of government to work impersonally. That we expect people in government to understand they don't work for the president or the prime minister, they work for the government. And the government is always there.

  David Frum

  Nice, Government, People

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• The British prime minister will want to have a strong and positive relationship with European leaders always.

  Michael Gove

  Strong, Leader, Want

  "Michael Gove tells the BBC that Boris Johnson wasn't up to the Tory leader job". Interview with Laura Kuenssberg, www.mirror.co.uk. June 30, 2016.

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• I am the only candidate capable of delivering these three things as prime minister, and tonight it is clear that I am also the only one capable of drawing support from the whole of the Conservative party.

  Theresa May

  Party, Drawing, Support

  "Tory leadership race: May takes big lead as Fox and Crabb drop out" by Anushka Asthana, Rowena Mason and Peter Walker, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2016.

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• David Lloyd George had been to Germany, and been so dazzled by the Führer that he compared him to George Washington. Hitler was a 'born leader', declared the befuddled former British Prime Minister. He wished that Britain had 'a man of his supreme quality at the head of affairs in our country today'. This from the hero of the First World War! The man who had led Britain to victory over the Kaiser!

  Boris Johnson

  Country, War, Hero

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• She [Theresa May] is the right choice to lead Britain in a challenging period and will make a truly outstanding prime minister.

  Jeremy Hunt

  Choices, Challenges, May

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• I have decided to give my support to Theresa May. I intend to work closely with her, to campaign for her and I'm sure she'll be a very fine prime minister of this country.

  Liam Fox

  Country, Giving, Support

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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