Prime Minister Quotes
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The Liberal Party has dealt with the spill motion and now this matter is behind us, we think that when you elect a government, when you elect a prime minister, you deserve to keep that government and that prime minister until you have a chance to change your mind.
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In my view, the ideal prime minister is patient, hard-working, compassionate and has a clear vision, driven by the fair go.
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The Prime Minister gave President Obama one of my artworks and suddenly my name was all over the news.
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Every prime minister ... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.
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Every and all the politicians have something they want to accomplish, and in order to implement your program, the best way is to become the prime minister. Have no doubt about it.
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Mr Brown is a politician of exceptional experience and ability, and I am sure he will discharge the office of Prime Minister with distinction.
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You can't hope for a better result as a campaigner than to have the prime minister announce a major policy change within 48 hours of your documentary.
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I was a very senior minister in the Howard government and I sat around this particular table in the prime ministerial office in many discussions. The difference between being a senior minister and the prime minister is that ultimately the buck does stop with the prime minister and in the end the prime minister has to make those critical judgement calls and that's the big difference.
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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.
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Some day he may be the next prime minister of Iraq, so it seems to me you want to start a relationship
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I was elected prime minister in 2014 under incredibly difficult circumstances: A third of the country was overrun by terrorists, the economy was struggling, people were divided by sectarianism, and relations with the wider world were strained.
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I think the reception that the queen has received says something different than what the prime minister is saying.
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By definition, as a Prime Minister I cannot be a liar.
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Donald Trump was elected president of the United States of America. The UK and the US have shared challenges, shared interests, that we can work together to deal with. We have a special relationship, it's longstanding, it's existed through many different prime ministers and presidents. I want to build on that relationship.
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There are some issues where ministers should come and talk to the prime minister, if the prime minister hasn't already talked to them. Any issue which a minister thinks is going to be profoundly controversial, where we do not have a clear existing position, it is important that there be a conversation between the minister and the prime minister. I think they all understand that and I think it is working very well.
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But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly.
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When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare and health and deteriorating roads, into the commander-in-chief. And it's just become almost unpatriotic to describe Bush's fallacious and ill-advised and mistaken and sometimes misleading actions.
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Prime Minister Golda Meir said that the Middle East will see peace when Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel. On behalf of many Arab mothers, this is one mother who not only loves her children, but also loves Israel's children.
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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.
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Every prime minister has a whole series of networks, and there are official formal networks and there are unofficial informal networks. I'm lucky in that I have good official formal networks, starting with my own office, the leadership group, the cabinet and the party room.
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I am the only candidate capable of delivering these three things as prime minister, and tonight it is clear that I am also the only one capable of drawing support from the whole of the Conservative party.
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It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United States goes and takes action there on behalf of the Iraqi government. You've got Iran coming in and saying we're going to stand with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, so now we're aligning ourselves with Iran, and if we do air strikes, becoming de facto air force for them.
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I started off tagging stuff - I'm not meant to be having tea and biscuits with the prime minister.
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By my count, the Deputy Prime Minister has sworn an oath of loyalty and service to Her Majesty no fewer than four times in the last two years, yet he has used his position as a minister of the Crown as a podium from which to rail against our history and our heritage. The minister says that instead of the monarchy he would prefer an entirely Canadian institution, but he fails to recognize that the monarchy is as Canadian as the House of Commons itself.
