#prime minister

When Gordon Brown becomes prime minister, the balance sheet that reflects his economic stewardship could look very sickly indeed. He could become Labour's biggest liability, not its most marketable asset. ↗

— Vince Cable

#balance #become #becomes #biggest #brown

If the prime minister really believes it, he must be the only person left who thinks that the recent bombs in London had no connection at all with his policy in Iraq. ↗

— Kenneth Clarke

#bombs #connection #had #his #iraq

There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#am #authority #bbc #british #chairman

I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#am #ambitious #any #australia #careful

The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#drew #first #heath #i #lessons

I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with a positive vision for the future of the European Union. A future in which Britain wants, and should want, to play a committed and active part. ↗

— David Cameron

#better #britain #british #committed #deal

On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government. ↗

— Kim Campbell

#canada #day #ever #federal #federal government

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. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#deputy #first #government #had #i

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

— John Major

#before #conservative #could #different #i

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

#going #known #minister #nothing #objective