Minister Quotes

William Ewart Gladstone is credited with the credo that a prime minister must be a "good butcher." The metaphor is apt insofar as the root of the word "decision" is "to cut."

Prime Minister Modi [Narendra] is strong enough, and he's accomplished much.

They said that President Bush's war in Iraq has cost the former Spanish Prime Minister his job. So President Bush isn't losing American jobs anymore, he's branching out to other countries.

The Canadian Prime Minister said Canada would lend the U.S. its full military support. You know what that means: Both tanks.

Some information has to remain in the privy of the office of the Prime Minister and the ministers for the proper administration of government.

The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.

In this time of challenge, I am asking the prime minister to address Congress on the grave threats radical Islam and Iran pose to our security and way of life.

You cannot think of Margaret without Denis. There comes a time when every Prime Minister needs someone to give him or her the unvarnished truth, and, in Denis, Margaret had just that.

I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't.

I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.

In my view it is better for the Labour Party, the leadership and the new prime minister that he be given the maximum flexibility.

The new prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, while a vast improvement on his predecessor is not doing much, if anything, to slow that process done.

I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.

It is a high honour to be elected Prime Minister of Australia.

We have a prime minister, I'm the foreign minister, I'm trying to get on with the job of doing Australia's foreign policy.

I am not the Prime Minister of French capitalism. I am the Prime Minister of France.

I may not worry as much as Prime Minister Eshkol does about Israel, but I worry as deeply.

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.

Government will not nominate the former Labor prime minister [Kevin Rudd] to be the UN's next secretary-general.

People innately have lots of solutions. It sounds like an obvious thing, but everyone thinks that they can be prime minister; everyone thinks that they can do a better job.

The claim made by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán that the refugee question is a German problem is incorrect. It is a European problem.

The British prime minister will want to have a strong and positive relationship with European leaders always.

If I'm the British prime minister I won't be dictated to on the timetable or the manner of the negotiations.

I want to be Prime Minister, but I will stand for Mayor of London first.

Prime Minister Jan Dhan Yojana is a reflection of how rich India's poor are at heart. Without any obligation to put any money in the 0 balance accounts, they didn't open an empty account.

I think honestly that Michael [Gove] came to this decision[Prime Minister candidate] very late, that he needed to step up.

My goal is to become Canada's first multicultural prime minister and represent the changing face of Canada.

This was an away-day for the deputy prime minister's staff, who've had a change of responsibilities [on John Prescott's scandalous playing habits... on the croquet lawn]

I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.

Businessmen are always trying to advance their business interests, but they are not running for Prime Minister.

Stephen Harper, who's the prime minister of Canada, he is saying that this - we have to give him a majority government, otherwise there will be a Separatist coalition. And he says it every minute.

I have never asked a prime minister for anything.

We've got the prime minister of Egypt Sherif Ismail, the president of Egypt Ibrahim Mahlab saying that Donald Trump is uniquely equipped to do great things.

I would sooner be prime minister of the moon than run another marathon. I've been really lucky. I didn't have any toenails fall off or anything disgusting like that. I still have all three nipples.

We are lucky to have Manmohan Singh as our Prime Minister. We could not have done without a person and leader of the choice as Manmohan Singh, who gets all international attention.

Meryl Streep, despite not being a Prime Minister, is reasonably convincing in 'The Iron Lady.'

I make my decisions and my judgments not based on what a prime minister of another country says, but based on what my principles tell me... how may DNA guides me.

Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative.

I've called David Cameron worse things than joker....and a former Prime Minister Tony Blair is widely referred to as a war criminal.

Instead of a president who boycotts Prime Minister Netanyahu, imagine a president who stands unapologetically with the nation of Israel.

We would take the same position as the majority of the world about this, including this issue where Prime Minister [Ariel] Sharon made a commitment to pull Israeli troops out of Gaza.

A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.

I'd like to run for president. Or Prime Minister. I think I could do a better job.

America is replicated at every level of British life, from the taxi driver to the prime minister.

We could have made peace with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad a long time ago. It didn't happen, because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't want to give up the Golan (Heights).

I don't think that my particular religious convictions should be held against me in this campaign any more than the Prime Minister's lack of convictions should be held against her.

I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister.

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.

Now you may do it badly, you may do it well, some people like you, some people hate you, all the rest of it - but you have got a real motivating life purpose. [on being Prime Minister

I am absolutely delighted to give my full support to Gordon as the next leader of the Labour Party and as prime minister and to endorse him fully.