Prime Minister Quotes - Page 5

• If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Ideas, Worry

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• Stephen Harper, who's the prime minister of Canada, he is saying that this - we have to give him a majority government, otherwise there will be a Separatist coalition. And he says it every minute.

  Rick Mercer

  Government, Giving, Majority

  "Rick Mercer, Hot On The Canadian Campaign Trail". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. April 23, 2011.

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• Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Justice, Hypocrisy, Envy

  c.1874 Letter.

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• I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.

  Ken Livingstone

  Hard Work, Might, Enough

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• The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.

  John Bercow

  Jobs, Team, Party

  "'Low-grade, sub-standard, downmarket drivel': House of Commons Speaker in angry rant at critics of him and his wife" by Tom McTague, www.mirror.co.uk. August 14, 2012.

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• I'd be prouder still to say I was Canada's 10th woman prime minister.

  Kim Campbell

  Canada, Prime, Ministers

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• When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Three, Four, Prime

  "Brought to book". www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2001.

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• The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people, look out, the baddies behind you - hiss, boo and whatever you do, don't vote Labor. This political parody of pantomime is looking and sounding desperate.

  Julia Gillard

  Plot Lines, People, Political

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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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• Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars… and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.

  Rajneesh

  Gratitude, Nature, Stars

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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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• It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United States goes and takes action there on behalf of the Iraqi government. You've got Iran coming in and saying we're going to stand with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, so now we're aligning ourselves with Iran, and if we do air strikes, becoming de facto air force for them.

  Tulsi Gabbard

  Country, Military, Government

  "The Lead with Jake Tapper", www.cnn.com. June 12, 2014.

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

  Ehud Olmert

  Promise, Prime, Ministers

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• This is a very fundamental reason why man cannot become meditative - or why very few men have dared to become meditative. Our training is of the mind. Our education is for the mind. Our ambitions, our desires, can only be fulfilled by the mind. You can become president of a country, prime minister, not by being meditative but by cultivating a very cunning mind. The whole education is geared by your parents, by your society, so that you can fulfill your desires, your ambitions. You want to become somebody. Meditation can only make you a nobody.

  Rajneesh

  Country, Ambition, Men

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• You earn money, and one day money is there -- then life says to you, 'What have you got?' But you don't listen. Now you think you have to put your money into politics, you have to become a prime minister or a president -- then everything will be okay. One day you are a prime minister, and life again says, 'What have you got?' You don't listen. You go on thinking of something else and something else and something else. Life is vast -- that's why many lives are wasted.

  Rajneesh

  Money, Thinking, One Day

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• Don't you think I would be a worthy replacement for you, Madam Prime Minister? You have a long nose. So have I. But I don't poke my nose into other people's affairs.

  Sam Manekshaw

  Badass, Thinking, Long

  "Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw" by Vinod Saighal, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2008.

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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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• The prime minister says he has a vision for change, well put that to the people of the country.

  David Cameron

  Country, People, Vision

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• I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.

  Winston Churchill

  Baby, Learning, Science

  As cited in "The Life of Politics" by Henry Fairlie, Methuen, pp. 203-204., 1968.

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• I think Mrs Thatcher did more damage to democracy, equality, internationalism, civil liberties, freedom in this country than any other Prime Minister this century. When the euphoria surrounding her departure subsides you will find that in a year or two's time there will not be a Tory who admits ever supporting her. People in the street will say, thank God she's gone

  Tony Benn

  Country, Thinking, Years

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• No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands. Nor does any American President have power approaching this

  Tony Benn

  Hands, President, Doe

  Tony Benn, Chris Mullin (1979). “Arguments for socialism”, Jonathan Cape

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• If the Queen can reject the advice of a minister on a little thing like a postage stamp, what would happen if she rejected the advice of the Prime Minister on a major matter? If the Crown personally can reject advice, then, of course, the whole democratic facade turns out to be false

  Tony Benn

  Queens, Advice, Crowns

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• Our prime minister could embrace and forgive the people who killed our beloved sons and fathers, and so he should, but he could not, would not, apologise to the Aboriginal people for 200 years of murder and abuse. The battle against the Turks, he said in Gallipoli, was our history, our tradition. The war against the Aboriginals, he had already said at home, had happened long ago. The battle had made us; the war that won the continent was best forgotten

  Peter Carey

  Father, War, Home

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• I don't know why, but Putin has made a ritual out of humiliating Medvedev. Sometimes I even feel sorry for the prime minister.

  Alexei Navalny

  Sorry, Sometimes, Putin

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• I'm the f***ing Prime Minister!

  Tony Blair

  Prime, Ministers

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