Prime Quotes - Page 10

• I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.

  Kamisese Mara

  Ministers, Prime Minister

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• What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?

  Lord Mountbatten

  Kings, Jobs, Firsts

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• I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.

  Ehud Olmert

  Ministers, Ends, Born

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• Our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has given the Government's support to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It is difficult to imagine a single piece of legislation which, more comprehensively, attacks the sanctity and dignity of human life than this particular Bill.

  Keith O'Brien

  Government, Support, Pieces

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• The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council.

  David Petraeus

  Iraq, Challenges, President

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• If I told my parents that I was going to do that [ to be really counsel to a Prime Minister] when I was kid, they would probably put me in therapy.

  Warren Mundine

  Kids, Parent, Ministers

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• I just really like writing and making television shows. There are ego rewards in doing battle with other television programs in prime time in the main season. I suppose there are times when I might look at that and think that's the major league. But when you look at it, ultimately would I really want to gamble my livelihood and my ability to connect with my fan base or write a show that I really like writing, or in some cases direct a show that I really like directing, for the sake of winning an ego battle? It's totally not worth it. That stuff is so ephemeral.

  Matt Nix

  Writing, Winning, Thinking

  Source: deadline.com

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• If there were an election today, Netanyahu would win. Yet, his standing in the polls is also a reflection of the weakness of Ehud Olmert, the current prime minister - who stands at 2 percent in a recent poll - and the enduring weaknesses of the Labor Party.

  Dennis A. Ross

  Party, Reflection, Winning

  "Dennis Ross: 18 Months to Avoid War with Iran". Interview with Nathan Gardels, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2007.

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• The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.

  John Redwood

  Mean, Reality, Thinking

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• Indigenous programs and policy will come within the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet because Indigenous policy and programs should not be an add - on, they should not be an afterthought, but they should be at the heart of a good Australian Government.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Heart, Government, Add

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• It is my hope that I could be not just a Prime Minister, but a Prime Minister for Aboriginal affairs, the first I imagine that we've ever had.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Firsts, Affair, Imagine

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• If a fan comes up and it is a middle-aged lady, it is probably from 'Prime'; if it is a younger girl, it is probably from when I guest-starred on 'One Tree Hill.' And if it is, like, a skateboard kid or a hipster kid, I can tell they are 'How to Make It' fans.

  Bryan Greenberg

  Girl, Hipster, Kids

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

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• When great nations fear to expand, shrink from expansion, it is because their greatness is coming to an end. Are we, still in the prime of our lusty youth, still at the beginning of our glorious manhood, to sit down among the outworn people, to take our place with the weak and the craven? A thousand times no!

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Greatness, People, Expansion

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Kings, President, Chance

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief.

  Julian McMahon

  Father, Odd, Ministers

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• Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from the Prime Minister saying you've been recommended for a knighthood and there are two little boxes, one says yes, one says no.

  Derek Jacobi

  Opportunity, Two, Knighthood

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• I guess the prime example is in North America there's a thing where if there's no opportunity to move forward with the puck, then a [hockey] player is told to dump the puck into the other zone. Just give up the puck and dump it in. Give it to the other team. And to the Soviet mentality in coaching, it just doesn't make any sense. If you're a skilled player, why are you going to give the puck away to the other team? Just give it away, right?

  Gabe Polsky

  Giving Up, Team, Moving

  Source: collider.com

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

  Kim Campbell

  Canada, Ministers, Stills

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• When Gordon Brown becomes prime minister, the balance sheet that reflects his economic stewardship could look very sickly indeed. He could become Labour's biggest liability, not its most marketable asset.

  Vince Cable

  Balance, Looks, Stewardship

  "Cable calls for cuts" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2005.

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• I think prime ministers, I actually think Cabinet ministers should be subject to intense scrutiny, I think that's in the public interest, even if some of the allegations made aren't right and so on, and they have to correct the record, it doesn't matter.

  Alexander Downer

  Thinking, Records, Matter

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.

  Alexander Downer

  Ministers, Yeah, Wells

  Interview with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. September 20, 2007.

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• Yes, I don't think I shall ever become Prime Minister. Hard as that is to swallow, I tell you one person who is very happy always to see me say that, and that's my wife.

  Alexander Downer

  Thinking, Wife, Ministers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists.

  David Deutsch

  Fall, Apples, Numbers

  "Philosophy will be the key that unlocks artificial intelligence" by David Deutsch, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2012.

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• There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

  Gavyn Davies

  Writing, Responsibility, Today

  "Resignation statement by Gavyn Davies", www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2004.

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• To serve as prime minister while being too mindful of the approval rating is like serving as a prime minister on a roller coaster. What is important, I believe, is that I really act on promises that I make and leave results. Leave a track record and show that to the Japanese public, who will, at the end of the day, I hope, appreciate it.

  Shinzo Abe

  Believe, Approval Rating, Track

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