Top 65 Quotes About Prime Ministers
#1. In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.
Martin Jacques
#2. We have, or have had women presidents or prime ministers in Liberia, Chile, Germany, Great Britain ... and yet the US of A still hasn't had a women president. It's just beyond my thinking. Look at Congress ...
Billie Jean King
#3. What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.
Wilma Rudolph
#4. Or how it feels to be more important than kings and queens, than presidents or prime ministers or heroes, to be sure of it, in the same way that people are more important than brussels sprouts?
Neil Gaiman
#5. As a student, I had stayed with Winston Churchill; later, I had lunched with Harold Macmillan - in fact, had met most of the post-war prime ministers of Great Britain from Douglas-Home to Tony Blair.
Nigel Hamilton
#6. Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.
Abdallah II Of Jordan
#7. I began to appreciate that authentic truth is never simple and that any version of truth handed down from on high - whether by presidents, prime ministers, or archbishops - is inherently suspect. The powerful, I came to see, reveal truth only to the extent that it suits them.
Andrew Bacevich
#8. You know, by the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions ... You may find you can get away with virtual presidents, virtual prime ministers, virtual everything.
William J. Clinton
#9. Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.
Brian Clough
#10. Women are secretaries of state and prime ministers - but people still don't expect women to be involved in violence.
Mia Bloom
#11. On the question of comfort women, when my thought goes to these people, who have been victimized by human trafficking and gone through immeasurable pain and suffering beyond description, my heart aches. And on this point, my thought has not changed at all from previous prime ministers.
Shinzo Abe
#12. Political risk is hard to manage because so much comes down to the personal choices of policymakers, whether prime ministers or heads of central banks.
James Surowiecki
#13. Presidents and prime ministers, whether they live in the rich or the poor world, are insulated and isolated from the devastating impact of global poverty. They read the statistics, but they rarely witness at first hand the misery and degradation of life on a dollar a day.
Jonathan Dimbleby
#14. Governments govern, but prime ministers and presidents do not personally turn up in people's homes to tell them how to run their lives, because of the mortal danger this would present. There are laws instead.
Terry Pratchett
#15. Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the leadership of Napoleon, the magnetism of a Beatle and the subtlety of Machiavelli.
Lester B. Pearson
#16. ... people always credit prime ministers with more brains than they've got.
Ken Follett
#17. Media people should have long noses like an elephant to smell out politicians, mayors, prime ministers and businessmen. We need to know the reality, the good and the bad, not just the appearance.
Dalai Lama
#18. 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
#19. You mustn't expect prime ministers to enjoy themselves. If they do, they mustn't show it - the population would be horrified
Edward Heath
#20. Well, Australians should speak for the national interests of Australia, and whatever role former Australian prime ministers may have, one of the things you do is speak frankly about the country as you see the country's best interests, you know?
Paul Keating
#21. The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.
David Icke
#22. New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party.
Carol Moseley Braun
#23. In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.
Alan Clark
#24. Over the last few years, the Islamic world has produced more female presidents and prime ministers than both Europe and North America combined.
Reza Aslan
#25. Other prime ministers leave office and stay in London. I have come back with my whole family to Fife. This is where they are being brought up. It is better for them and better for me. It's great to see more of the kids.
Gordon Brown
#26. A woman said to me, 'You're better than your successor.' She then said she's lived under 10 prime ministers, and each was worse than the last. That put me in my place.
Gordon Brown
#27. Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.
Winston Churchill
#28. Well, there have been periods in the past when prime ministers of Australia and New Zealand were at each others' throats publicly and frequently. That's not productive at all.
Helen Clark
#29. Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists.
Robert Fisk
#30. The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War.
Douglas Hurd
#31. I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.
Jane Goodall
#32. We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.
Hector Hugh Munro
#33. If presidents and prime ministers can find time to stay fit, others of us can find ways to do it, too.
Julian Goater
#34. You don't try and put rockets under prime ministers.
Andrew Forrest
#35. We dream of an India where development is the result of all Chief Ministers, the Prime Minister, state Ministers, Union Ministers working together with even Local Body Authorities as one team, a strong and united Team India.
Narendra Modi
#36. I appreciate my brother, His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the U.A.E. and Ruler of Dubai, and the Council of Ministers, who face every morning challenges, but plan and remove all obstacles to score achievements.
Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan
#37. It is now in Gordon Brown's - and the Labour party's - best interests for those seeking the prime minister's immediate departure to back off
David Blunkett
#38. I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing.
Tony Abbott
#39. If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.
Douglas Hurd
#40. If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign,
William F. Buckley Jr.
#41. It is quite clear that history will record that Margaret Thatcher was the greatest Prime Minister this country has had since Churchill.
Nigel Lawson
#42. When I started out as Prime Minister I wanted to please all the people all the time. By the end I was wondering if I pleased any of the people any of the time.
Tony Blair
#43. It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher
#44. Some people find it difficult to argue with a woman Prime Minister and shrivel up.
Douglas Hurd
#46. It is the only time that I can ever remember the Prime Minister reading out the conclusions of a meeting that did not take place. They were already written before it started.
Michael Heseltine
#48. Did the Prime Minister have some sort of grudge against you by sending this publicity crazed person into your Department?
David Winnick
#49. Some information has to remain in the privy of the office of the Prime Minister and the ministers for the proper administration of government.
Jean Chretien
#50. If our system of cabinet government is to work effectively, the prime minister of the day must appoint ministers he or she trusts and then leave them to carry out that policy.
Nigel Lawson
#51. We vote to leave, we get rid of this Prime Minister - dishonest Dave [Cameron] - and we get a better Prime Minister.
Nigel Farage
#52. If I'm the British prime minister I won't be dictated to on the timetable or the manner of the negotiations.
Michael Gove
#53. What is good is the fact that we've got a broad selection of candidates [for Prime Minister] ... to choose from, representing a diverse set of backgrounds, a diverse set of perspectives.
Nicky Morgan
#54. The suggestion that the prime minister had been flirting with one of the senior women cabinet ministers made me laugh every time I saw it, and I thought, "if you only knew!" Perhaps they should have pushed it a bit harder.
Edwina Currie
#56. 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
#57. As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister
Boris Johnson
#58. In my view it is better for the Labour Party, the leadership and the new prime minister that he be given the maximum flexibility.
John Richard Reid
#59. I am not the Prime Minister of French capitalism. I am the Prime Minister of France.
Lionel Jospin
#60. [When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.
Margaret Thatcher
#62. 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
#63. The first law I passed in my cabinet was a law eliminating the double salary for the prime minister and the ministers. I have a salary as member of parliament. I don't want a double salary. So it was a very important decision.
Enrico Letta
#64. 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
#65. I am absolutely sure to be the most democratic man to ever become Prime Minister in Italy.
Silvio Berlusconi
