Top 590 Prime Quotes

How do you trust a prime minister who said one thing before the elections and does exactly the opposite after the elections?
Kapil Sibal
I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.
Chang-Rae Lee
One of the best forcers was probably Tiger in his prime. He could force an outcome if he needed it.
Xander Schauffele
I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents itself in New York as the lover of culture while it turns out that if you look behind the scenes, it is also a prime funder of Jesse Helms, someone who is very hostile to the arts.
Hans Haacke
As much as I am very critical of Ariel Sharon in the first Lebanon war, I think that he was the right person at the right time in the right place as prime minister. He made a series of very significant decisions, not one of which was popular or seemed justified at the time.
Ronen Bergman
What MSNBC is, what cable news prime time has become in the shows that get the ratings, is the oped page of the newspaper.
Lawrence O’Donnell
When Tony Abbott was prime minister, I could get straight answers. I didn’t always like what he had to say, but he stuck to it.
Annastacia Palaszczuk
When you have a prime minister who is corrupt, then you can be sure that a country cannot be anything else but corrupt.
Mahathir Mohamad
Post-bifurcation, I raised my voice and sat on an indefinite fast in Guntur in October 2015. Eight days into the fast, I was forcibly evicted by the police on the pretext that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was coming to Amaravati.
Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy
I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of

I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler’s oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.
George McGovern
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Prime Minister Singh is to be commended for beginning the process of transforming India into a global economic power by initiating economic liberalization in the early 1990s.
Henry Paulson
When Aventura began, there was a lot of salsa and merengue, and we said, ‘Let’s just do what we do.’ Then Aventura blew up, but urban was in its prime.
Romeo Santos
Our first Prime Minister saw a country that would be known for its generosity of spirit. And so it is.
Kim Campbell
In my position as prime minister, I bear the highest responsibility for decisions.
Ehud Olmert
A prime minister’s job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations.
Jack Layton
Joining Lazio at 26 years old, I’m in my prime.
Ciro Immobile
Platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc. have been a great escape for a lot of people who don’t watch television and want to ditch the heavy priced tickets and snacks at the movie theaters. And the number is only growing.
Shweta Basu Prasad
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
The perfect knowledge of events cannot be acquired without divine inspiration, since all prophetic inspiration receives its prime motivating force from God the creator, then from good fortune and nature.
Nostradamus
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.
Denis Thatcher
Already, even before we have left the EU, Brexit is damaging our country, our economy, our society and our standing in the world – damage that will be worsened by the kind of ruinous no deal being pledged by some who aspire to become prime minister.
Betty Boothroyd
There is a heated debate in Turkey these days over whether the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is furthering democracy or rolling it back.
Mustafa Akyol
When disaster strikes, our prime objective is to save the maximum number of people. As the person heading the government, my duty is to provide all support to the flood-affected.
Pinarayi Vijayan
I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.
Caroline Rhea
A fighter in his prime needs to stay active. A fighter, who doesn’t have certainty when he’s going to fight again, it’s hard for him to stay mentally ready.
Daniel Jacobs
In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.
John Naisbitt
I have an ambivalent relationship with Margaret Thatcher. She came to power in May 1979 – a month before my 11th birthday. I was far too young to have developed a great deal of political awareness. I remember it, though – my mother excited at the dinner table because Britain had its first female prime minister.
Sara Sheridan
As prime minister, I was the Israeli leader who walked the greatest distance in his offers to the Palestinians.
Ehud Barak
In 1988, my mother led a nationwide election campaign, wrote a bestselling book, had her first child, and became the youngest and first female prime minister of the Muslim world. All in one year! For her detractors, this wasn’t good enough. She was unacceptable because she was a woman.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
To be prime minister, you need to fight many entities, you need to be very determined. It’s not going to fall in your lap.
Ayelet Shaked
There’s something about prime time television and the way the song is going to come off on the air. I’m very concerned, very self-conscious about that.
Jon Secada
People said I was king, but I was never king, and I say I’m the prime minister.
Chuck Berry
I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.
Ami Ayalon
The more books there are on shelves, the more will be sold. Once you get to the level of The Secret and have 40-100 copies in many stores, managers have almost no choice but to put them in prime real estate like front-of-store, end caps, or front window.
Tim Ferriss
I’m a real geek and fan when it comes to ‘Transformers.’ I remember being at my first rehearsal for this film, and I looked over and saw the tractor trailer. I was thinking to myself, ‘Oh, my. That’s Optimus Prime.’
Kelsey Grammer
Monday Night Football started in 1970, and when it started, it was something extremely special because sports had not been aired in prime time. So, it was a novelty, and a lot of people thought it wouldn’t work, and, of course, it worked spectacularly well.
Al Michaels
I had one of the best nights of my life in a restaurant called Barclay Prime. It was a steak house that mixed modern with tradition.
Phil Rudd
There’s a feeling of invincibility that comes with being young, with being fit and in the prime of your life. But I learned when I was in the Marines just like I’ve learned as a UFC fighter that no one is invincible, and that you have to project yourself at all times.
Liz Carmouche
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
I truly don't know why it was ended, though. It was sud

I truly don’t know why it was ended, though. It was suddenly decided that that would be it. They never said particularly why, because they were cut off in their prime.
Derek Jacobi
When I served as prime minister last time, I failed to prioritize my agenda. I was eager to complete everything at once, and ended my administration in failure. After resigning, for six years I traveled across the nation simply to listen.
Shinzo Abe
It would be easy to assume that the open letter is a symptom of the Internet age. Such is not the case. In 1774, Benjamin Franklin wrote an open letter to the prime minister of Great Britain, Lord North – a satirical call for the imposition of martial law in the colonies.
Roxane Gay
I kind of modeled Optimus Prime’s voice out of many people I had known over the years, my family especially.
Peter Cullen
The crime and violence in the black community is a prime example of the damaging effect of broken families and single female-headed households.
Jesse Lee Peterson
Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he’s been accepted everywhere he goes.
John Hench
Perhaps we shall also have to hold in check other coloured peoples who will soon be in their certain prime, and thus preserve the world, which is the world of our blood, of our children and of our grandchildren.
Heinrich Himmler
AIADMK is committed to supporting an Indian for the Prime Minister’s post.
J. Jayalalithaa
You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.
Brian Mulroney
Rahul Gandhi lacks the mass appeal and not a match to Modi… people will not not accept him as prime minister.
Tamilisai Soundararajan
In Downing Street they called me ‘Boss’. Civil servants would always call me ‘Prime Minister’.
Tony Blair
When I was 14, I told all the girls in my class that I wanted to be the first woman prime minister. Someone else beat me to that!
Cherie Blair
Under Prime Minister Modi’s leadership, terror camps are being destroyed, which is breaking the back of terrorists and Pakistan.
Yogi Adityanath
When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It’s hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time.
Matt Groening
God didn’t give up on me. I am somebody in God’s eyes… Let me be a prime example of how I’ve been through the storm and the rain, and I made it over.
Fantasia Barrino
Prime ministers come and go, but so long as he or she lives, the sovereign remains, receiving and reading all state papers and meeting once a week with the prime minister to advise, enquire, and comment – sometimes sharply, as was the case with Queen Elizabeth II and Mrs. Thatcher – on affairs of state.
Michael Korda