Quotes About Prime Minister

#1. 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

#2. At Camp David in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat 94 percent of the West Bank; ten years later, Ehud Olmert offered Abbas 93.6 percent with a one-to-one land swap.

Elliott Abrams

#3. If there will be a serious Palestinian prime minister who makes a 100 percent effort to end terrorism, then we can have peace. Each side has to take steps. If terror continues, there will not be an independent Palestinian state. Israel will not accept it, if terror continues.

Ariel Sharon

#4. I want to be Prime Minister, but I will stand for Mayor of London first.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

#5. I am my own woman ... and was, long before I became Prime Minister. Attending to my family's needs only made me stronger as a leader because if you know how to run a home and ensure each person's particular need is met, it's the best leadership training you can have.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

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

Nicky Morgan

#7. Many men no longer want to be identified just by their jobs, said Bengt Westerberg, the country's former deputy prime minister.

Emily Matchar

#8. The best way to filter out the bad seeds was to place a job ad for Prime Minister in a national newspaper and all those that applied would be automatically disqualified.

Alex Scarrow

#9. Two famous happy warriors - Reagan and his political soulmate, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - knew they were fighting their own ideological and external wars. But they did so with the sunny dispositions and positive outlooks of those who knew they were on the right side of history.

Monica Crowley

#10. I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.

Tony Abbott

#11. I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister.

Tony Abbott

#12. I will do what the Prime Minister asks me to do; that is my consistent approach to politics and to service.

Des Browne

#13. Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.

Abdallah II Of Jordan

#14. Nothing had excited me-the huge cars, the entourages, the bodyguards, the policeman jumping to attention, all meant nothing to me ... till I came to the old man's office. (On becoming prime minister)

Shimon Peres

#15. The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.

Voltaire

#16. The Holocaust never quite leaves Israeli Jews alone. Arabs use it against them and they use it against Arabs. Jews use it against other Jews. Even the president of the United States, it seems, can use it against the prime minister of Israel.

David K. Shipler

#17. I am old enough to enjoy a bit of nostalgia, but wise enough to know that there haven't been any "good ol' days" since Eden (the garden, not the prime minister).

Ron Brackin

#18. The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

Harold Wilson

#19. 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

#20. There is a heated debate in Turkey these days over whether the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is furthering democracy or rolling it back.

Mustafa Akyol

#21. These are important reforms. Infrastructure, education, health, hospitals, closing the gap with indigenous Australians. Also the Apology to the first Australians. As Prime Minister of the country I am proud of each and every one of these achievements.

Kevin Rudd

#22. A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one. Once he has left office he cannot do very much; and he is a fool if he fails to realize it all and to be profoundly thankful for having had the great chance.

Theodore Roosevelt

#23. Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.

Kenneth Clarke

#24. I am absolutely sure to be the most democratic man to ever become Prime Minister in Italy.

Silvio Berlusconi

#25. In 2004, President Bush gave Prime Minister Sharon certain guarantees about American policy, but the Obama administration treated those as a kind of private letter having no binding policy impact.

Elliott Abrams

#26. My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister.

Robert Menzies

#27. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has denounced negotiation with Iran as a 'historic mistake' that is making the world 'a more dangerous place.' His partners in Washington vigorously echo that view.

Stephen Kinzer

#28. In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government.

Anatoly Chubais

#29. Oh, what a democracy MY PRIME MINISTER IS CORRUPT

Abdul'Rauf Hashmi

#30. We have a prime minister, I'm the foreign minister, I'm trying to get on with the job of doing Australia's foreign policy.

Kevin Rudd

#31. In a 1931 speech, Butler recounted a story about Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, how he had run over a child with his car, and said, as he moved on, "It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of the State.

Smedley D. Butler

#32. I'm the guy everybody wanted to live next door. They just didn't want me to be prime minister.

Neil Kinnock

#33. 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

#34. Today is indeed an historic occasion when as a first chair-in-office woman I hand over to another woman chair in office, your Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in the presence of a woman head of the Commonwealth, Her Royal Highness, Her Majesty the Queen of England.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

#35. The the relationship between the prime minister and the monarch is very much a personal one and when it comes to the constitution of the Order of Australia, which is headed by the monarch, this is governed by letters patent, which are a matter between the prime minister and the monarch.

Tony Abbott

#36. Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

Narendra Modi

#37. History should remember Blair and Bush as the killers of children or as the lying prime minister and president.

Mahathir Mohamad

#38. The British prime minister will want to have a strong and positive relationship with European leaders always.

Michael Gove

#39. If "silence is golden" then we have a 24 carat prime minister ... !!!

Himmilicious

#40. In September 1993, President Clinton presided over a handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn - the climax of a 'day of awe,' as the press described it.

Noam Chomsky

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

Malcolm Turnbull

#42. Two years ago, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon described the Gaza Strip settlement of Netzarim as a vital part of Israel's national security and now he is going to leave. That is because of the 'effective armed struggle'.

Zuheir Mohsen

#43. The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Aneurin Bevan

#44. No British Prime Minister of the last seventy years has been more harshly stereotyped than Stanley Baldwin. No one has been so much ignored, after the initial judgements of contemporaries had been made.

Stanley Baldwin

#45. 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 Ross

#46. Prime Minister, I see you've already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely, the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate.

Daniel Hannan

#47. The Prime Minister wins debate after debate and loses battle after battle. The country is beginning to say that he fights debates like a war and the war like a debate.

Aneurin Bevan

#48. It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it.

Brian Mulroney

#49. I'm the first Thai prime minister in history that first time win half of parliament seats and second time win 76% of parliamentary seats and I was ousted because too popular.

Thaksin Shinawatra

#50. Instead of a president who boycotts Prime Minister Netanyahu, imagine a president who stands unapologetically with the nation of Israel.

Ted Cruz

#51. You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.

Brian Mulroney

#52. Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.

Baba Kalyani

#53. I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective.

John Smith

#54. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev can no longer attend concerts by his favorite group Deep Purple without having to fear that the musicians will wear T-shirts with Pussy Riot written on them.

Alexei Navalny

#55. I'm inspired by the example of Prime Minister Abe, who overcame many challenges after his first term as prime minister to successfully return to the highest office in Japan six years later, and is now hopefully leading Japan in an extremely promising direction.

John Roos

#56. An Indian shopkeeper offered kites with images of Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and President Barack Obama in Mumbai this month.

Anonymous

#57. I will do exactly as the Prime Minister asks me.

Michael Gove

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

Boris Johnson

#59. Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu made it real clear. They're willing to be generous on some other concessions but not on the border issue. And I don't blame him.

Herman Cain

#60. Mazarin, in his character of cardinal and prime minister, was almost an atheist, and quite a materialist.

Alexandre Dumas

#61. Men and women of western Sydney, it's appropriate, you apparently believe, that Australia's oldest surviving Prime Minister should make the concluding remarks in Australia's oldest surviving Government House. I hope the building's foundations are a bit more substantial than mine.

Gough Whitlam

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

Ken Livingstone

#63. 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

#64. Prime Minister Jan Dhan Yojana is a reflection of how rich India's poor are at heart. Without any obligation to put any money in the 0 balance accounts, they didn't open an empty account.

Narendra Modi

#65. I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.

Bel Powley

#66. I make my decisions and my judgments not based on what a prime minister of another country says, but based on what my principles tell me, how may DNA guides me.

Steve Israel

#67. This past year has been very turbulent for the Middle East, and my conversation with Prime Minister Netanyahu strengthened my belief that we need to remain vigilant in our support of our critical ally.

Rob Portman

#68. I will protect your tax money! It won't be spent on Prime Minister and Governor houses. InshALLAH the day PTI government comes in power these walls of governor houses will be brought down. We will break these walls and make libraries and playgrounds for the public to use

Imran Khan

#69. He (Gorton) is not fit to hold the great office of Prime Minister.

Malcolm Fraser

#70. I was encouraged to stand for Parliament by David Cameron, and he has given me the opportunity to serve in what I believe is a great, reforming government. I think he is an outstanding Prime Minister.

Michael Gove

#71. If I am prime minister, we will come out of the European Union, and part of that will be control of free movement.

Theresa May

#72. When I was in college, I was belittling the woman who later become my wife for not knowing who Boba Fett was, and she responded by asking me if I knew who the Prime Minister of Israel was. Surprisingly? Not Mon Mothma.

Brian K. Vaughan

#73. As the crisis in Syria grows and the humanitarian tragedy becomes more clear, I appreciated Prime Minister Netanyahu's perspective on the changes and volatility in the region.

Rob Portman

#74. What country is stabler than Iran? Where else in the world would an assassinated prime minister be so quickly replaced?

Ruhollah Khomeini

#75. I think I would rather be a prime minister than a taxi driver.

Jens Stoltenberg

#76. I don't think that my particular religious convictions should be held against me in this campaign any more than the Prime Minister's lack of convictions should be held against her.

Tony Abbott

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

Margaret Whitlam

#78. That doesn't sound like civil war to me," said Gaylen, turning back to his book with a smile. "It only sounds silly."
"Of course it's silly," said the Prime Minister impatiently. "But a lot of serious things start silly.

Natalie Babbitt

#79. I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had it so ... prudent.

Tony Blair

#80. She [Theresa May] is the right choice to lead Britain in a challenging period and will make a truly outstanding prime minister.

Jeremy Hunt

#81. Surprise is when a prime minister is assassinated during his speech. Suspense is when an assassin lurks while the prime minister speaks. Balancing surprise and suspense is the job of the thriller writer.

Ashwin Sanghi

#82. No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.

Neil Kinnock

#83. in March 2000, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright offered an apology for the U.S. role in the August events. She offered carefully worded regrets for the fact that the United States had "played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular Prime Minister" in 1953.

Abbas Milani

#84. It is a very heavy responsibility [to be a prime-minister] to make, but someone has to make it for our country and I am thrilled and honoured to have that opportunity and that responsibility.

Tony Abbott

#85. If I had been prime minister, I would have offered apologies to the Dutch Jewish community without hesitation. This would refer both to our government's attitude during the Second World War and to the very late postwar discovery that the restitution process had been poorly conceived.

Els Borst

#86. It is not just a question of blowing up a building or shooting a prime minister. Such bourgeois horseplay is not contemplated. Our operation must be delicate, refined and aimed at the heart of the Intelligence apparat of the West.

Ian Fleming

#87. A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations.

Jack Layton

#88. As Prime Minister of Israel, I will introduce a bill into the Knesset that will simply pay the Arabs not to shoot at the Jews.

Roseanne Barr

#89. In the last five years I used to go to Zen practice once a month, but since I assumed the post of prime minister it's been much harder.

Shinzo Abe

#90. I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.

Paul Johnson

#91. I think the Prime Minister has embarked on a journey and he has no idea where he's taking us.

John Hewson

#92. If I were in the government, I would persuade the prime minister to see the beauty in the fact that people see Israel as a haven - from their sadness to their hope.

Elie Wiesel

#93. 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

#94. It must be a conviction Government. As Prime Minister I could not waste time having internal arguments.

Margaret Thatcher

#95. 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

#96. We are in a strange world,' one senior Israeli official said to me, 'where the defense minister and to a lesser degree the prime minister are focused intently on the military option, and the intelligence services and the military, with some exceptions, are deeply doubtful.

David E. Sanger

#97. I serve at the discretion of the prime minister.

George Osborne

#98. There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.

Harold Wilson

#99. Everything is ultimately the Prime Minister's fault', said Lloyd. 'That's what it means to be the leader

Ken Follett

#100. I loathe all political parties, which I regard as inventions of the devil. My favourite prime minister was Sir Alec Douglas-Home, not because he was on the Right, but because he spent a year in office without, on his own admission, doing a damned thing.

George MacDonald Fraser