Quotes About Leadership

As a prime minister, my job is not to try and influence or opine on what a leader of a different country should be doing.

I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.

I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.

When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.

A prime minister has to keep a certain balance when dealing with sensitive issues.

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.

To see how many Italians are going out of Italy, the sort of exodus, a great generation leaving my country, I think is the worst nightmare for me as prime minister but also for the country, of course.

In Kuwait there is already a real, elected parliament with genuine power, but the prime minister is always a member of the ruling al-Sabah family. That must end.

Bush, and Blair, and the prime minister of Japan, and Berlusconi, these people are criminals, and they are responsible for mass murder in the world, for the war, and for the occupation, through their support for Israel, and through their support for a globalized capitalist economic system, which is the biggest killer the world has ever known.

As prime minister, I will never make a decision that will be an injustice to Serbia and its citizens.

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.

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.

When Prime Minister Erdogan came to Washington in 2009, he sounded almost like the ambassador from Iran.

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

I will do what the Prime Minister asks me to do; that is my consistent approach to politics and to service.

Being prime minister is not a job to be performed with an eye for the exit.

I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.

I'm a very happy, content member of David Cameron's team. I fought very hard to get my friend elected as leader of the Conservative party, then elected as the prime minister of this country, and I'm very happy being part of that team that is bringing change to this country.

I will do exactly as the Prime Minister asks me.

I became a prime minister within four-and-a-half years, the shortest kind of career ever in Israeli political history.

What do you prefer? A prime minister obsessed with being popular, or a prime minister who does the job?

In my position as prime minister, I bear the highest responsibility for decisions.

I won't allow any party to evade the question of which leader they support for prime minister.