Famous quotes containing the words prime minister, prime and/or minister:
“No woman in my time will be Prime Minister or Chancellor or Foreign Secretarynot the top jobs. Anyway I wouldnt want to be Prime Minister. You have to give yourself 100%.”
—Margaret Thatcher (b. 1925)
“The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.”
—Ruth Benedict (18871948)
“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 (15641616)