Prime Quotes · Page 8

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

— Peter Costello

One of the fundamental responsibilities of any Canadian prime minister is to get our resources to market.

— Justin Trudeau

Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

— Anonymous

Did the Prime Minister have some sort of grudge against you by sending this publicity crazed person into your Department?

— David Winnick

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.

— James Dean

What country is stabler than Iran? Where else in the world would an assassinated prime minister be so quickly replaced?

— Ruhollah Khomeini

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

— Ami Ayalon

…shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.

— Pliny the Elder

I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the…

— Yitzhak Rabin

My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor.…

— Neville Chamberlain

Every eye is an eye, when you're doing the surgery there that is just as important as if you were doing eye…

— Fred Hollows

I've reminded the prime minister-the American people, Mr. Prime Minister, over the past months that it was not always a given that…

— George W. Bush

Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the…

— Lester B. Pearson

Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of like being stamped 'Prime US Beef.' They…

— David Eddings

Correctness is clearly the prime quality. If a system does not do what it is supposed to do, then everything else about…

— Bertrand Meyer

Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime…

— Hal Borland

Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, 'Bin Laden…

— Frank Rich

Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars… and if you have eyes you…

— Anonymous

I was organizing a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference in October 1994 and I got a message that the Prime…

— David Trimble

We want a comprehensive package that covers export subsidies, tariffs and overall levels of support. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is making…

— Kevin Watkins

The USA is a threat to world peace. Who are they to pretend that they are the policemen of the world, the…

— Nelson Mandela

The next Prime Minister walking through that door will be me or Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, you can choose an economy…

— David Cameron

Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an…

— Daniel Tammet

My pet-sitting day ends around sunset, and it's very satisfying to know that I've made several living beings happy that day. That…

— Blaize Clement

One could not always put safety up front as the prime goal. Do that, and who would ever achieve anything of note?

— Jack McDevitt

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree-very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

— Stanley Baldwin

He (Gorton) is not fit to hold the great office of Prime Minister.

— Malcolm Fraser

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

I'm going to be going to a secluded spot where no one can find me - NBC prime time.

— Jay Leno

In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.

— John Naisbitt

Rich widows are the only second-hand goods that sell at prime cost.

— Vikrant Parsai

I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.

— Maggie Smith

Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who ... hates all hypocrisy, falsehood, and deceit.

— Geoffrey B. Wilson

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

— John Major

It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister

— Margaret Thatcher

Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.

— Benjamin Graham

I prepared myself for my marriage to Pierre Trudeau, but I didn't prepare myself for marriage to the prime minister.

— Margaret Trudeau

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

— Andrew Forrest

The House has noticed the Prime Minister's remarkable transformation in the past few weeks, from Stalin to Mr. Bean.

— Vince Cable

The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.

— Bill Gates