Prime Minister Quotes - Page 15

• What is good is the fact that we've got a broad selection of candidates [for Prime Minister]... to choose from, representing a diverse set of backgrounds, a diverse set of perspectives.

  Nicky Morgan

  Perspective, Facts, Prime

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• You cannot stop what the public want. The public want two strong women in the final round and then a woman prime minister and I'm absolutely with that.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Strong Women, Two, Finals

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The Conservative Party isn't electing a leader in opposition after losing a general election who can build up over five years and gain experience. We're electing somebody who's going to be our prime minister in two months' time, and that's why it's very important we have somebody with strong experience, who's good at working with the international community and can hit the ground running.

  Chris Grayling

  Running, Strong, Party

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• These are human beings with real lives and the uncertainty and the fear that any of them face right now could be ended at a stroke if we had all the candidates for prime minister simply say that the right to remain here is not in question and I call again upon Theresa May and on the current prime minster to do that. That would be the humane thing to do and I even at this stage hope that that's a direction they will take.

  Nicola Sturgeon

  Real, Would Be, May

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• In politics, there are different categories of friendship. My friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, for example .

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Greek, Example, Different

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I would describe that [friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras] as a utilitarian friendship. At the time, his country was facing the prospect of leaving the euro zone and many Greeks felt abandoned by Europe. In such a situation, it seemed appropriate to me to present myself as a friend to Greece. It had to do with the country's dignity.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Country, Europe, Leaving

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think honestly that Michael [Gove] came to this decision[Prime Minister candidate] very late, that he needed to step up.

  Nicky Morgan

  Thinking, Decision, Steps

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• I have to say that I think that Anthony Eden was probably the most disastrous Prime Minister in our history, and I am not forgetting Lord North and a few people like that.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Thinking, Eden, People

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• My pitch is very simple. I'm Theresa May and I think I'm the best person to be prime minister of this country.

  Theresa May

  Country, Simple, Thinking

  "Boris Johnson bid to become British Prime Minister dissolves as key supporter pulls out". "AM", www.abc.net.au. July 1, 2016.

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• Government will not nominate the former Labor prime minister [Kevin Rudd] to be the UN's next secretary-general.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Government, Kevin, Next

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• Boris [Johnson] was cavalier with assurances he made. We're picking a prime minister here to lead the country, not a school prefect.

  Dominic Raab

  Country, School, Prime

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• Michael Gove is an incredibly talent guy and a Brexiteer. But he has been telling all of us for the last five years that he doesn't want to [be the Prime Minister] and he doesn't think he's got it in him to do it so his conversion on the road to Damascus has come pretty late.

  Andrew Mitchell

  Thinking, Years, Guy

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• One of the particular things that impressed me was one visitor [of NAACP] - I think it was - it wasn't the Prime Minister of England. We were located then on 14th Street and Fifth Avenue, up several flights of rickety stairs, and he came all the way up those stairs to see Walter [White], largely because of certain kinds of impact, I think, that the Association seemingly was having.

  Ella Baker

  Thinking, Impact, White

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• If I'm the British prime minister I won't be dictated to on the timetable or the manner of the negotiations.

  Michael Gove

  Negotiation, Prime, Ministers

  "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 thought Donald Trump approach on Brexit was a fascinating window into how he thinks.
  His basic point was that [David] Cameron should resign because he didn't read the public mood on the issue right. And that Boris Johnson should be the next prime minister because he did. That's a very different definition of leadership than many politicians have. Or at least say they have.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Thinking, Issues, Different

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• We have to consider who is going to be the best prime minister to take on a "one nation" agenda.

  Damian Green

  Agendas, Being The Best, Prime

  "Boris Johnson says he is out of Tory party leadership race after Gove challenge - as it happened" by Andrew Sparrow, Haroon Siddique, Nadia Khomami and Chris Johnston, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2106.

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• Whoever the next prime minister of this country will be, it will be a female prime minister and a female prime minister who has formidable skills and I know whichever one of the two wins they will lead this country well.

  Michael Gove

  Country, Winning, Skills

  "Conservative leadership: Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom in battle to be prime minister after Michael Gove eliminated from contest" by Danny Boyle, Ben Riley-Smith, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 7, 2016.

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• The Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] and I will negotiate proceeding from our national interests: the interests of Russia and the interests of Japan. We should find a compromise.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Japan, Compromise

  Source: www.rt.com

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• 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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• You have made a very good point: both the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] and I enjoy a fairly high level of trust among the citizens of our countries.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Citizens, Levels

  Source: www.rt.com

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• Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.

  Brian Clough

  Prime, Ministers, Caught

  Quoted in Phil Shaw The Book of Football Quotations (2003).

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• Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] and I have spoken a lot, and we said all the right things, in my opinion, about creating an atmosphere of trust and friendship between our nations and peoples.

  Vladimir Putin

  Creating, Atmosphere, Opinion

  Source: www.rt.com

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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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• 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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• There is progress in the sense that the Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] has proposed, outlined, as it were, directions for movement toward a peace treaty and the resolution of issues related to territorial problems. Now, what did he propose? He proposed promoting an environment of trust and cooperation. I believe it is even hard to imagine that it can be any different, that we can agree to sign the documents that we are talking about without trusting each other or without cooperation. That is simply impossible even to imagine.

  Vladimir Putin

  Believe, Issues, Trusting Each Other

  Source: www.rt.com

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