Prime Minister Quotes

• I have decided to give my support to Theresa May. I intend to work closely with her, to campaign for her and I'm sure she'll be a very fine prime minister of this country.

  

  Liam Fox
  • Work
  • Country
  • May

• 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
  • General
  • Jerusalem

• As prime minister of Iraq, I am required to act in accordance with the Constitution to protect all of the Iraqi people and to keep our country united.

  

  Haider al-Abadi
  • Constitution
  • Prime Minister
  • Iraqi people

• 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
  • Information
  • Office
  • Privy

• I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Political
  • Jobs
  • Ambitious

• 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
  • Law
  • Prime Minister
  • Above

• 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
  • Relationship
  • Constitution
  • Governed

• I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.

  

  Ami Ayalon
  • Political
  • Period
  • Politics

• It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying through the stratosphere, or landing on the moon. First-rate pursuits - involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is about and trying to convey that understanding - inevitably result in a sense of failure. A Napoleon, a Churchill, or a Roosevelt can feel himself to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, or a Blake. Understanding is forever unattainable.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Women
  • Trying

• George Clooney says he's had sex with too many women to ever run for office. He was immediately made Prime Minister of Italy.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Women
  • Sex
  • Italy

• The situation is grave, ... We have all worked hard to support the legitimate prime minister.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Support
  • Situation
  • Legitimate

• As Prime Minister, (Rabin) made difficult and courageous decisions in his search for peace and was undaunted by the many obstacles he faced.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Peace
  • Search
  • Decisions

• Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Prime Minister
  • Pope
  • Churchill

• I have to say that I think that Anthony Eden was probably the most disastrous Prime Minister in our history, and I am not forgetting Lord North and a few people like that.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • People
  • History
  • Anthony Eden

• My pitch is very simple. I'm Theresa May and I think I'm the best person to be prime minister of this country.

  

  Theresa May
  • Country
  • Pitch
  • Prime Minister

• In my 10 months as prime minister, I made seven trips to Kashmir. Militancy reduced greatly during the UF rule.

  

  Inder Kumar Gujral
  • Prime Minister
  • Trips
  • Kashmir

• I think women across Australia, particularly, are a bit fed up with this constant attack and belittling of women in politics, and particularly the role of a female as a Prime Minister.

  

  Christine Milne
  • Up
  • Women
  • Politics

• The prime minister of Ireland will be celebrating St. Patrick's Day at the White House. So finally the Secret Service agents will have a drinking buddy.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • House
  • Service
  • Drinking

• One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced; he should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Genius
  • Skin
  • Conscientious

• The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Time
  • War
  • Help

• 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
  • Life
  • End
  • Prime Minister

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

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Things
  • Promise
  • Prime Minister

• Every prime minister ... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Security

• In my view, the ideal prime minister is patient, hard-working, compassionate and has a clear vision, driven by the fair go.

  

  Julia Gillard
  • Vision
  • Patient
  • Compassionate

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