Quotes About Being Prime Minister

#1. Being the chief minister of a regional government is just a pastime compared with the hellish job of being prime minister of two different communities brought together.

Elio Di Rupo

#2. Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.

Ken Livingstone

#3. 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

#4. Being prime minister is not a job to be performed with an eye for the exit.

Douglas Alexander

#5. Being prime minister is a lonely job ... you cannot lead from the crowd.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Lalu Prasad Yadav

#7. So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.

Tony Blair

#8. 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

#9. What if you could just invent your family, your home, your life?
You could. You could call Sunday Wednesday. Be awake and living at 3 a.m. Use T-shirts instead of sheets. Eat lettuce like an apple. Blow your nose on socks.
Take four unrelated people and make a family.

Sarah Ellis

#10. In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.

Gautama Buddha

#11. 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

#12. She showed that alertness, that swiftness of reflection comes out in men before a battle, in conflict, in the dangerous and decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all his value, and that all his past has not been wasted but has been a preparation for these moments.

Leo Tolstoy

#13. Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.

Savielly Tartakower

#14. We took an approach, supported by the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary and the Mayor for London, that we had very real fears of violence and damage being caused across the streets of London.

Michael Todd

#15. As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.

Eugene Cernan

#16. Being a prime minister is a very demanding job. And as long as I have the strength, I will continue to do this and be of benefit to my country.

Dmitry Medvedev

#17. I'm a very happy, content member of David Cameron's team. I fought very hard to get my friend elected as leader of the Conservative party, then elected as the prime minister of this country, and I'm very happy being part of that team that is bringing change to this country.

George Osborne

#18. We all would like to struggle like Tiger is struggling.

Jack Nicklaus

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

Damian Green

#20. But even we, with our supposed mastery of the English language, were not immune to the shortcoming of our vocabularies.
Words can only help you if you speak them.

Bianca Phipps

#21. It is one thing being able to contest an election and to give the people hope that I can be the next prime minister. It is a totally different situation where the people of Pakistan are told that the results are already taken and the leader of your choice is banned.

Benazir Bhutto

#22. Allan didn't even know if the Prime Minister was Left or Right. He must certainly be one of them, because if there was one thing life had taugh Allan, it was that people insisted on being one or the other.

Jonas Jonasson

#23. Why would the Prime Minister make such an order, Mr. Chaudhry?" the General leaned forward to put out the barely smoked cigarette. "Would you advise him to do such a foolish thing? Are you tired of being in government already?" A barely noticeable sneer crept across his battle-worn face.

Khalid Muhammad

#24. He was flying over India now, still making notes. He remembered hearing an Indian politician on TV talking about the British prime minister and being unable to pronounce her name properly. "Mrs. Torture," he kept saying. "Mrs. Margaret Torture." This was unaccountably funny.

Salman Rushdie

#25. It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.

William Graham Sumner

#26. Being the only girl in the world who can say that her mother was Britain's first woman Prime Minister is honour enough for me.

Carol Thatcher

#27. I saw my role as prime minister's wife as being human towards other humans and not treating them badly.

Margaret Whitlam

#28. I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.

Boris Johnson

#29. She got a confused, disgusted look on her face, like she done salted her coffee instead a sugared it.

Kathryn Stockett

#30. Shooting is nothing. Anybody can shoot. The big charge is putting on a show for the crowd.

Pete Maravich