Quotes About Responsibility

Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from the Prime Minister saying you've been recommended for a knighthood and there are two little boxes, one says yes, one says no.

I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.

I think the Prime Minister has embarked on a journey and he has no idea where he's taking us.

Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say 'Bless You'.

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.

It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.

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.

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.

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 will do exactly as the Prime Minister asks me.

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.

The successful conduct of economic policy is possible only if there is - and is seen to be - full agreement between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

I serve at the discretion of the prime minister.

The prime minister is not a private individual, but the leader of the Jewish State and the Jewish world as a whole.

I want to make one thing clear: I am proud to be a citizen of a country in which a prime minister can be investigated like any other citizen.

I felt completely ready to become prime minister. I came to office better equipped, in terms of knowledge of economics and of the Australian economy, than anyone before me, or since, I would say.