Prime quotes
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One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.
-- Alex Cox -
Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.
-- Alexander Downer -
Yes, I don't think I shall ever become Prime Minister. Hard as that is to swallow, I tell you one person who is very happy always to see me say that, and that's my wife.
-- Alexander Downer -
When youre asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.
-- Andrew Forrest -
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You don't try and put rockets under prime ministers.
-- Andrew Forrest -
Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.
-- Andy Summers -
No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.
-- Benazir Bhutto -
Peace in the Middle East is of prime importance to the Philippines, due to the presence of around 2 million of our countrymen working in that region.
-- Benigno Aquino III -
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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
-- Bertie Ahern -
We started playing the Baltimore Colts early, and I was still very impressed with Johnny Unitas, who just passed away recently. I thought he was one of the best quarterbacks at the time when I was very young, he was in his prime.
-- Bob Lilly -
As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister
-- Boris Johnson -
In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops.
-- Boutros Boutros-Ghali -
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Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.
-- Brian Clough -
If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.
-- Brian Mulroney -
Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.
-- Brian Mulroney -
I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.
-- Caroline Rhea -
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[Margaret] Thatcher had just become prime minister; there was talk about whether it was an advance to have a woman prime minister if it was someone with policies like hers: She may be a woman but she isn't a sister, she may be a sister but she isn't a comrade.
-- Caryl Churchill -
Energy is the prime mover of all we see and know. You change the energy and your body has to respond.
-- Christiane Northrup -
Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.
-- Chuck Eddy -
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 -
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You mustn't expect prime ministers to enjoy themselves. If they do, they mustn't show it - the population would be horrified
-- Edward Heath -
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 -
Every prime minister... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.
-- Ehud Olmert -
A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled.
-- Ehud Olmert -
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A prime number is one (which is) measured by a unit alone.
-- Euclid -
It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.
-- Gail Sheehy -
Get the shuttle out of the garage. It's in its prime of its life. How could we just put it away?
-- Gene Cernan -
My main mission when I became Prime Minister, was to keep Singapore going and Singapore has been kept going. So, I'm happy with what I've done for Singapore.
-- Goh Chok Tong -
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The prime rule of reality is that we must become in our lives what we choose to experience in the world.
-- Gregg Braden -
I saw Len Hutton in his prime, Another time, another time.
-- Harold Pinter -
We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.
-- Hector Hugh Munro -
Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .
-- Jeff Greenfield -
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When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.
-- Jeffrey Archer -
If I would've fought Andre Ward in my prime, I would've beat him.
-- Joe Calzaghe -
I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.
-- Joe Eszterhas -
When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver.
-- Joe Theismann -
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I am in the prime of my senility.
-- Joel Chandler Harris -
In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of assassination.
-- John Diefenbaker -
I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.
-- John Major -
I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't.
-- John Major -
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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 -
It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state.
-- Jose Eduardo Dos Santos -
We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.
-- Joseph Pilates -
I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief.
-- Julian McMahon -
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I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.
-- Kamisese Mara -
I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.
-- Ken Livingstone -
Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.
-- Kenneth Clarke -
It is a high honour to be elected Prime Minister of Australia.
-- Kevin Rudd -
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I'd be prouder still to say I was Canada's 10th woman prime minister.
-- Kim Campbell -
I still feel that I am in my prime right now but I think my best fights were in my thirties.
-- Larry Holmes -
The diiference is that in the private sector you work for yourself, and as Prime Minister I work for every single Haitian - inside Haiti and outside - and for all those who love Haiti as well.
-- Laurent Lamothe -
Curiosity is the prime requisite of the novelist.
-- Lucy Poate Stebbins -
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Even in my prime, I need God in my life because without God, we're nothing.
-- Manny Pacquiao -
I don't think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.
-- Margaret Thatcher -
It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister
-- Margaret Thatcher -
My name is Mart Laar. I have been twice Prime Minister of Estonia, and I'm not an economist.
-- Mart Laar -
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Now it's me & my time, it's just me in my prime
-- Nicki Minaj -
I'll tell you once, and I'll tell you again. There's always a prime between n and 2n.
-- Paul Erdos -
I'm 42 now, what I would consider prime time.
-- Payne Stewart -
I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.
-- Ridley Scott -
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Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
Then be not coy, but use your time; And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.
-- Robert Herrick -
I believe, in my prime, I could have fought with anybody alive.
-- Rocky Marciano -
I am absolutely sure to be the most democratic man to ever become Prime Minister in Italy.
-- Silvio Berlusconi -
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By definition, as a Prime Minister I cannot be a liar.
-- Silvio Berlusconi -
The existence of a prime mover- nothing can move itself; there must be a first mover. The first mover is called God.
-- Thomas Aquinas -
So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.
-- Tony Blair -
I'm the ***** Prime Minister!
-- Tony Blair -
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You've got to keep yourself in prime physical condition, because fatigue makes cowards of us all.
-- Vince Lombardi -
To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
-- Warren Moon -
I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.
-- Wilma Rudolph -
For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
-- Wole Soyinka -
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Boris [Johnson] was cavalier with assurances he made. We're picking a prime minister here to lead the country, not a school prefect.
-- Dominic Raab -
Of course I want to be [prime minister].
-- Jeremy Corbyn -
Too often our leaders cannot work for the greater good because they acknowledge no good greater than politics. But if that's truly our prime directive and highest imperative, God help us all.
-- Leonard Pitts -
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 -
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The claim made by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán that the refugee question is a German problem is incorrect. It is a European problem.
-- Martin Schulz -
Women are secretaries of state and prime ministers - but people still don't expect women to be involved in violence.
-- Mia Bloom -
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 -
Meryl Streep, despite not being a Prime Minister, is reasonably convincing in 'The Iron Lady.'
-- Sasha Frere-Jones -
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If I told my parents that I was going to do that [ to be really counsel to a Prime Minister] when I was kid, they would probably put me in therapy.
-- Warren Mundine -
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 -
The idea of Jewish settlements under Palestinian sovereignty, as was suggested by someone in the Prime Minister's office, is very dangerous and reflects an irrationality of values.
-- Naftali Bennett -
I think it is disgraceful. I think it is completely disgusting that you've got a candidate for prime minster who seems to think that human beings are bargaining chips.
-- Nicola Sturgeon -
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Businessmen are always trying to advance their business interests, but they are not running for Prime Minister.
-- Peter Costello -
We have to consider who is going to be the best prime minister to take on a "one nation" agenda.
-- Damian Green -
Did the Prime Minister have some sort of grudge against you by sending this publicity crazed person into your Department?
-- David Winnick -
I'm 81 and I'm in the prime of my life.
-- Rita Moreno -
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Why add prime numbers? Prime numbers are made to be multiplied, not added.
-- Lev Landau
