Minister Quotes

I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing.

It is quite clear that history will record that Margaret Thatcher was the greatest Prime Minister this country has had since Churchill.

So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.

Nobody has achievements like this ... you cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.

People still laugh at me in politics, they think I won't make it; but I think I will, after Harold Wilson, I will be your next Chancellor to become Prime Minister.

It is my hope that I could be not just a Prime Minister, but a Prime Minister for Aboriginal affairs, the first I imagine that we've ever had.

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.

I am in regular contact with Prime Minister [Shinzo] Abe. We have met several times this year [2016].

Being the only girl in the world who can say that her mother was Britain's first woman Prime Minister is honour enough for me.

The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill.

Mr Brown is a politician of exceptional experience and ability, and I am sure he will discharge the office of Prime Minister with distinction

The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early.

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.

The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development.

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

What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?

Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange, Although he fleeced the flags of every nation, For into a prime minister but change His title, and 'tis nothing but taxation.

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.

I would be a disaster as a prime minister.

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

I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.

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.

When youre asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.

The prime minister is 12 years old. She looks after 20 goats in the morning, but she's prime minister in the evening.

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

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

Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.

I think the rest of the world will think we're made, and indeed we are. We've turned out the greatest Prime Minister in the post war years simply because of short term nerves.

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.

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

It is almost impossible to say the name of Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawat without adding 'give a dog a bone'

I am an apolitical Prime Minister. Apart from elections, I don't get involved into politics ever.

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.

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

'Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.'

Israel is extraordinary blessed to have [Benjamin Netanyahu] as prime minister at this pivotal time in history and so is the United States of America to hear his voice against this deal.

It is very helpful to have a partner on whom you can rely in any situation. But the problem starts because some people don't like it that one twin would be president and the other prime minister.

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.

You have made a very good point: both the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] and I enjoy a fairly high level of trust among the citizens of our countries.

You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.

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.

In politics, there are different categories of friendship. My friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, for example .

As for the job of prime minister, I like it, yes. But no more than I've liked other work that I've done as an adult.

The work of a Prime Minister is the loneliest job in the world.

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

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.

If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

The prime minister has chosen to acknowledge publicly the sovereignty of God and the claim of God on her life. Hers is the challenge to live up to that claim.

I don't know why, but Putin has made a ritual out of humiliating Medvedev. Sometimes I even feel sorry for the prime minister.

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.