Prime Minister Quotes - Page 18

• The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early.

  Mordecai Richler

  Growing Up, Ambition, Kids

  Quoted in Time (Canadian ed.), 31 May 1971

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• The House has noticed the Prime Minister's remarkable transformation in the past few weeks, from Stalin to Mr. Bean.

  Vince Cable

  Past, House, Transformation

  Vincent Cable during House of Commons Debates, www.publications.parliament.uk. November 28, 2007.

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• Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a national shame. It is the systematic, widespread, shocking elimination of India's baby girls. Some 50,000 female fetuses are aborted every month in India.

  Elizabeth Vargas

  Girl, Country, Baby

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• But the U.S. has to be careful. If our strategy depends on Sunnis doing the fighting to clear Mosul and Ramadi - and, as near as I can tell, that is the strategy - then you have to be careful that Sunnis don't perceive the U.S. to be operating arm in arm with Iran or with Iranian-backed Shiite militias that Abadi - Prime Minister Abadi is using in Iraq, so that, in effect, we're fronting for Iran.

  David Ignatius

  Fighting, Iran, Iraq

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Jobs, Thinking, Australia

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was elected by the people of Australia as Prime Minister of Australia. I was elected to do a job, I intend to continue doing that job. I intend to continue doing it to the absolute best of my ability. Part of that job has been to steer this country through the worst economic crisis the world has seen in 75 years.

  Kevin Rudd

  Country, Jobs, Australia

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm very proud to be the prime minister of all of Israel's citizens, Arabs and Jews alike.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Citizens, Proud

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• 'Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.'

  Louise Mensch

  Kids, Fiction, Abel

  "Anything but a kept woman" by Neasa MacErlean, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2001.

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• Mr Brown is a politician of exceptional experience and ability, and I am sure he will discharge the office of Prime Minister with distinction

  Bertie Ahern

  Office, Politician, Prime

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• I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.

  Ami Ayalon

  Political, Entering, Want

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• Baalbek is so beautiful. It is the heart of beauty in the Middle East - I want to embrace these people with my music. I will try so hard for them. Their president is a Christian, their prime minister is a Muslim. Music is for everyone.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

  Beautiful, Christian, Heart

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• Now you may do it badly, you may do it well, some people like you, some people hate you, all the rest of it - but you have got a real motivating life purpose. [on being Prime Minister

  Tony Blair

  Hate, Real, People

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• I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

  Louise Mensch

  Ambition, Worst Enemy, Wish

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• If the basis of trust between the Prime Minister and her Defence Secretary no longer exists, there is no place for me with honour in such a Cabinet.

  Michael Heseltine

  Trust, Cabinets, Prime

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• As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.

  Boris Johnson

  People, England, Prime

  "Johnson makes gaffes on all fronts" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2006.

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• The diiference is that in the private sector you work for yourself, and as Prime Minister I work for every single Haitian - inside Haiti and outside - and for all those who love Haiti as well.

  Laurent Lamothe

  Haiti, Prime, Ministers

  "Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe of Haiti: 'We don’t want to be known as an NGO nation'". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2013.

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• I am absolutely delighted to give my full support to Gordon as the next leader of the Labour Party and as prime minister and to endorse him fully.

  Tony Blair

  Party, Giving, Support

  "Blair endorses Brown as new Labour Party leader". www.cnn.com. May 12, 2007.

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• So you know, formally, what the government here is saying is that Israel's prime minister announced the appointment on Twitter. He didn't follow diplomatic protocol. But what we know is that it's about much more than that. It is about who Dani Dayan is.

  Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

  Government, Israel, Prime

  "Brazil Rejects Israel's Ambassador; Israel Threatens Relations Downgrade". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. December 30, 2015.

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• I think it might be better to have the President sort of like the King of England - or the Queen - and have the real business of the presidency conducted by ... a city manager-type, a Prime Minister, somebody who's directly answerable to Congress, rather than a person who moves all his friends into the White House and does whatever he wants for four years.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Queens, Kings, Real

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• The uncritically admiring supporters and friends of the prime minister [Benjamin Netanyahu], in whose ranks I certainly don't include David [Brooks], but include Charles Krauthammer, the columnist, and Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, insist on comparing him to the incomparable leader of the British forces in country in part of - during World War II.

  Mark Shields

  Country, War, Leader

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think if you've managed Celtic or Rangers you can go on to be Prime Minister of Great Britain, it's that hard.

  Gordon Strachan

  Soccer, Football, Thinking

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• The new prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, while a vast improvement on his predecessor is not doing much, if anything, to slow that process done.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Done, Improvement, Prime

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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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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• When youre asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.

  Andrew Forrest

  Country, Growing Up, Prime

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• [When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Female, Alternatives, Prime

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