Top 590 Prime Quotes

If you think about who retires during their prime, the number of athletes who do that is very small.
Ben Askren
Of all the criticisms levelled at Stephen Harper by his critics, the most puzzling, at least to anyone who has covered Washington, is that he behaves more like a president than a prime minister.
Neil Macdonald
The thing about working in Hollywood is that, at some point, you really get tired of hearing how godless you are, and how if you and the rest of the heathens in Tinsel town would put more God-centric shows on TV, people wouldn’t be abandoning prime time in favor of their Bible study classes.
John Ridley
I think 60 is when many people hit their prime. We elect many of our presidents in their 60s. At that age, people are full of ideas and their best self. I wanted to dig into my potential and bring out my best self.
Diana Nyad
I serve at the discretion of the prime minister.
George Osborne
It’s insane going from skiing to cycling. Even though you are in prime shape, you feel like you have never worked out a day in your life.
Oksana Masters
We can be thankful President Barack Obama is taking aim at one of the prime causes of climate change and extreme weather: air pollution. The EPA’s carbon pollution standards are the most significant step forward our country has ever taken to protect our health by addressing climate change.
Donna Brazile
I, as prime minister, never went to Washington. Certainly never went to a presidential ranch. I hate to say this, but I wasn’t going to be the pilot fish to the shark, whereas Australia quite happily bobbed along like a happy little pilot fish with a shark who was a messy eater, and I just couldn’t feel like that.
David Lange
It’s only under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership that the country can foresee a bright future.
Nirmala Sitharaman
How I’d like to start a new life in a distant land. Not because of racism or politics. But to be in a place that I knew hardly anything about, in a place where I wouldn’t even care to know the prime minister’s name. A place where names and faces would have no meaning for me.
Sayed Kashua
I was like, Amazon Prime? Who has Amazon Prime? It turns out everybody.
Gaby Hoffmann
I turned down ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brody’ with Maggie Smith. I think she got the Academy Award.
Julie Andrews
I am a son of my nation. It does not matter whether I am prime minister, a soldier, or a policeman. The main thing is to be useful to the people, that I can look into people’s eyes, and that people see that there are real benefits from my activities.
Ramzan Kadyrov
At the end of the day, the law is the same for the Prime Minister or a common man of India.
Akshaye Khanna
The prime directive of media training is that the question never matters. That an honest response is for amateurs. Media trainers advise memorizing a set of non-responses and repeating them no matter what question is asked.
Neil Macdonald
If I was prime minister, there would be absolutely zero

If I was prime minister, there would be absolutely zero risk that Brexit wouldn’t happen.
Andrea Leadsom
I think I am the first person to have made a statement that Narendra Modi should be the Prime Minister of India.
Raj Thackeray
I do believe it is true that the people of India regard the prime minister as the most important political leader.
Sanjaya Baru
I liken all jobs to decorating. If you don’t do the preparation, sand down and prime first, you won’t get a good paint job, and that’s the same as everything in life.
Sean Lock
But first, the news: The House of Commons was sealed off today after police chased an escaped lunatic through the front door during Prime Minister’s question time. A spokesman at Scotland Yard said it was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Ronnie Barker
I’ve said in the past that if I were Prime Minister, I would ban obesity.
Katie Hopkins
Paying extra for prime placement can often pay off.
John Quelch
I grew up with a lot of people whose whole prime mover was dad rage. I never really had it – it always seemed so empty. It always seemed to be masking something else, which was really their own lack of initiative.
Robert Downey, Jr.
You need quite good shock absorbers and a sense of humour to be the Prime Minister’s child.
Carol Thatcher
My Dad always maintained that although Mrs. Thatcher did not look like us, she absolutely thought like us. He referred to her as the first British Asian Prime Minister. Because she shared our core values and beliefs.
Alok Sharma
Once the country voted for Brexit, I wanted the prime minister to make a success of it, but I knew that unpicking 45 years of entwinement with the E.U. would be impossible without our elected lawmakers being fully involved.
Gina Miller
Since taking office, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party have transformed the Temporary Foreign Worker Program – which was originally designed to bring in temporary workers on a limited basis when no Canadian could be found – into one that has brought in a large pool of vulnerable workers.
Justin Trudeau
He saved me from being somebody else. I could have been prime minister, I could have been a prostitute on the streets, but I am what I am and Bob has a lot to do with that.
Rita Marley
I’m a prime example of a person who loves hip-hop, and I will defend it till the day I die.
Jason Moran
The prime minister’s office is not something that one enjoys.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
My relationship with Modiji is exactly how the relationship between a Prime Minister and party president should be. It is a clean, healthy relationship.
Amit Shah
I want to be a prime creator – as every self-regarding artist should do.
Peter Greenaway
If there were an election today, Netanyahu would win. Yet, his standing in the polls is also a reflection of the weakness of Ehud Olmert, the current prime minister – who stands at 2 percent in a recent poll – and the enduring weaknesses of the Labor Party.
Dennis Ross
There was a kind of madness in the country. Eamon De Valera, the prime minister, had this vision of an Ireland where we’d all be in some kind of native costume – which doesn’t exist – and we’d be dancing at the crossroads, babbling away in Gaelic, going to Mass, everyone virginal and pure.
Frank McCourt
In the sense that you’re not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn’t isn’t unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.
Peter Singer
I think what happens when you are prime minister is no day is the same and every day you are under pressure. And there is always so much happening that the days just flash by and flash into weeks.
John Key
Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.
Sue Grafton
I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.
Mason Cooley
I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them.
Shinzo Abe
I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me – either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention.
Deana Carter
When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver.
Joe Theismann
When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s government fell in May 1940, the nation turned to Churchill. At last, his unique qualities were brought to bear on a supreme challenge, and with his unshakable optimism, his heroic vision, and above all, his splendid speeches, Churchill roused the spirit of the British people.
Gretchen Rubin
How do you spell the name of the Irish prime minister? It sounds like ‘teeshuck’, but we spell it ‘taoiseach.’ We respect foreign spellings these days – a sign of our more egalitarian times, perhaps.
David Crystal
For all the criticism I’ve been showered with – people calling me a betrayer, a backstabber – frankly, the only criticism I have of Manmohan Singh is that he weakened the office of the prime minister, and he brought down the dignity of the office.
Sanjaya Baru
I loathe all political parties, which I regard as inventions of the devil. My favourite prime minister was Sir Alec Douglas-Home, not because he was on the Right, but because he spent a year in office without, on his own admission, doing a damned thing.
George MacDonald Fraser
Yes, I don’t think I shall ever become Prime Minister. Hard as that is to swallow, I tell you one person who is very happy always to see me say that, and that’s my wife.
Alexander Downer
I have presented a dream project. Prime Minister Narend

I have presented a dream project. Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be elected again at the Centre, and he wants to bring welfare to the people of the southern districts, including Thoothukudi. We only make promises that we can fulfill.
Tamilisai Soundararajan
Prime Minister Narendra Modi worked to make the country safe.
Amit Shah
I was elected by the people of Australia as Prime Minister of Australia. I was elected to do a job, I intend to continue doing that job. I intend to continue doing it to the absolute best of my ability. Part of that job has been to steer this country through the worst economic crisis the world has seen in 75 years.
Kevin Rudd
I’m proud to say that we are the party of Canada’s first prime minister, the father of our federation, and the visionary who made this land possible.
Andrew Scheer
I think, at 32, you are past your prime as a footballer.
Toni Kroos
People are with our Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi, with regard to the surgical strike on black money. They are not with the opposition parties.
Tamilisai Soundararajan
A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.
Robert Baden-Powell
I don’t think it’s the role of the prime minister to court the press.
John Major