Elected Prime Minister

Famous quotes containing the words prime minister, elected, prime and/or minister:

    “Being prime minister is a lonely job.... you cannot lead from the crowd.”
    —Margaret Thatcher (b. 1925)

    “The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated by media’s diabolic need to reduce ideas to personalities.”
    —Kate Millett (b. 1934)

    “Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you’d spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids?”
    —Louise Lague (20th century)

    “Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,
    Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
    Raze out the written troubles of the brain,
    And with some sweet oblivious antidote
    Cleanse the fraught bosom of that perilous stuff
    Which weighs upon the heart?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)