A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled.
Ehud Olmert
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ELLIOTT ABRAMS I'm no wealthier than Bibi Netanyahu or Arik Sharon. I don't feel that I'm more hedonist...
EHUD BARAK I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the Un...
DAVID CAMERON No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. An...
MARGARET THATCHER I promise: I will be a prime minister to everyone. For right and left, for settlers, Haredim, Druze,...
ISAAC HERZOG There can be no doubt the prime minister should seriously consider stepping down -- possibly as prim...
KARPAL SINGH Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.
ALEXANDER DOWNER Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.
KENNETH CLARKE I am not the Prime Minister of French capitalism. I am the Prime Minister of France.
LIONEL JOSPIN I'm the guy everybody wanted to live next door. They just didn't want me to be prime ministe...
NEIL KINNOCK Our promise will be fulfilled in a fortnight.
DAVID KYAMBADDE There is absolutely no chance that the next prime minister will not be Viktor Chernomyrdin,
BORIS BEREZOVSKY The prime minister is not soft.
BASSAM RHIDA The prime minister has clearly said his visits are private ones. The difference between a private vi...
HIDENAO NAKAGAWA I definitely think that if it is possible and the prime minister were able to function again even pa...
REUVEN ADLER Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.
KENNETH CLARKE Once a politician says a nation is a 'threat' to the Japanese people, then something must be done to...
ICHIRO OZAWA we have reached the conclusion that there should be a prime minister for all Iraqis, not just one gr...
KASIM DAOUD The Prime Minister is head of team but its not a one woman act. I've been called all those thing...
HELEN CLARK Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when ...
BERNARD LEVIN I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born he...
YITZHAK RABIN No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. An...
MARGARET THATCHER It is important the Prime Minister understand this is an issue that is not going away.
MIKE WATKINS I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.
KAMISESE MARA I'd be prouder still to say I was Canada's 10th woman prime minister.
KIM CAMPBELL It can't be bad having a mother who is fulfilled by her work.
JANINE DI GIOVANNI I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must lear...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL If the prime minister doesn't resign, we'll stay here. We'll stay here for a very long time. We thin...
CHAMLONG SRIMUANG I don't for a moment think that the Prime Minister can stop it by the wave of a wand,
MR HOWARD Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespe...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespe...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I think I would rather be a prime minister than a taxi driver.
JENS STOLTENBERG The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchangin...
JOE LIEBERMAN The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchangin...
JOSEPH LIEBERMAN While I can't promise you that I'm going to be a perfect candidate and I can't promise y...
ALEXI GIANNOULIAS In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a maj...
PETER SINGER I can't forgive the Japanese government. The Japanese Prime Minister must come to me and ask for for...
YONG SOO LEE He will not continue to be prime minister, but maybe he will be able to understand and to speak.
DR. JOSE COHEN I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.
CAROLINE RHEA I don't want to be a fulfilled woman.
MARY DALY President Bush believes that the promise of Social Security fulfilled over the last 70 years ought t...
TRACEY SCHMITT People can express opinions in democratic society but I must say investor confidence in political st...
KIATPHONG NOIJAIBOON That in my opinion would be a serious blow in the sense that he would be a convicted prime minister ...
FRANCO PAVONCELLO I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise tha...
TED NAIFEH We call for the prime minister to resign. As long as he does not resign, we will continue with our p...
CHAMLONG SRIMUANG This election should not be about race, about language, about coups, about an Indian or Fijian prime...
MAHENDRA CHAUDHRY [In addition to the Senate's administration, Sen. Oliver took aim at the recent rounds of Senate app...
DONALD OLIVER In Japan, usually, once you become prime minister, you do not have a second chance.
SHINZO ABE We have moved only one step forward, how could we retreat? To solve this crisis, the prime minister ...
CHAMLONG SRIMUANG Let them repeat what they have already told the prime minister in earlier meetings but they must sho...
OMAR ABDULLAH Netanyahu has already defeated a sitting prime minister (Peres in 1996), and he can do it again.
HANAN CRYSTAL his record as a prime minister is absolutely mediocre.
BRIAN MULRONEY I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to...
YITZHAK RABIN The Prime Minister needs to have proper security. But I'm not at all persuaded that hiring luxury ya...
CHRIS GRAYLING In Kuwait there is already a real, elected parliament with genuine power, but the prime minister is ...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when ...
BERNARD LEVIN No matter who becomes (next prime minister), it will be an unavoidable path,
SADAKAZU TANIGAKI It would be an unavoidable path for whoever becomes (the next prime minister),
SADAKAZU TANIGAKI The unique must be fulfilled.
MARTHA GRAHAM This prime minister should have known better,
STEPHEN HARPER The Prime Minister is having mild fever.
SANJAYA BARU I am very grateful that the prime minister and the Cabinet decided not to stick to the deadline,
KOFI ANNAN When the great promise of the Spirit was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, it was fulfilled not in ...
CHARLES HODGE A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and ...
JACK LAYTON God never fails. No matter how long it takes, the promise will be fulfilled.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian governm...
ABDUL REEKI No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian governm...
ABDUL HAMEED REEKI I will not agree that the health of Israel's prime minister would turn into a political issue. This ...
AMIR PERETZ Needs are things which can be only fulfilled by your deeds
POOJA GUNSHEKHAR GOUNDER The commission did not and does not plan to submit its report to the prime minister,
JOHN GOMERY Clearly there are things you cannot realistically do as Prime Minister because they are going to inc...
CHRIS GRAYLING In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Mini...
TONY BLAIR The king can then employ some legal ploy to dismiss parliament and the new prime minister.
BABURAM BHATTARAI That means that the Russian prime minister took personal responsibility [for the decision].
ALEXEI KUDRIN Suicide attacks are not limited to the Palestinians. There can be Jewish suicide attackers. Their fi...
AVI DICHTER I told the prime minister that it is not good for the army to step forward too quickly. It would be ...
GEN. SONDHI BOONYARATKALIN Only the royal benevolence of His Majesty the King, to bestow a prime minister, can end the politica...
SONDHI LIMTHONGKUL The relationship is so institutionalized and so important that while each prime minister puts his ow...
MALCOLM HOENLEIN He may never be prime minister and he may never be minister, and that's probably as much his doing a...
JEFF KENNETT For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broke...
BIBLE Prime Minister, you have blood on your hands.
EHUD BARAK The prime minister had a CT scan that showed that the bleeding has stopped. He was then put in the n...
SHLOMO MOR YOSEF I would be very surprised if it was true. I was with British Environment Minister Margaret Beckett j...
STEPHANE DION We are going to write a letter to the Prime Minister telling him in clear terms that we do not want ...
AB BARDHAN Clearly I am not going to be a candidate for prime minister because they tell me to, ... They certai...
AHMAD CHALABI The fact that I was elected prime minister shows that the LDP has changed,
JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can...
TATJANA PATITZ If it was up to the youth, I would be the Prime Minister of Israel.
BOAZ WACHTEL To be able to keep the promise I made to God, I think that keeps me going. No matter how much the mo...
ALBERT GUBAY Don't forget, I'm 39. I didn't come here just for the money to impress myself. I'm n...
JAROMIR JAGR Our rally will persist until the prime minister quits.
CHAMLONG SRIMUANG Yes, I don't think I shall ever become Prime Minister. Hard as that is to swallow, I tell you on...
ALEXANDER DOWNER Let (British Prime Minister Tony) Blair hear it. We are not for the British bidder either,
ROBERT MUGABE The prime minister must clarify this matter to the public before we send the petition to the commiss...
KORN CHATIKAVANIJ A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome w...
CHINA MIĆ©VILLE Prime Minister: [on the phone to his sister] I'm very busy and important. How can I help you?
LOVE ACTUALLY You can't stand for too many things. You can't use the bully pulpit for too many things. So,...
MEG WHITMAN If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the...
BRIAN MULRONEY There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
SYLVIA PLATH Our contact will no longer be the prime minister but the UMP lawmakers and ... Nicolas Sarkozy.
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I trust the integrity of the British government and the British soldiers.
EHUD OLMERT I never took a bribe. This is the truth, and there is no other.
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EHUD OLMERT Dictates are futile, and mutual accusations are nothing but useless word games.
EHUD OLMERT Every word I wrote in my book is documented, certified, true, and correct. The truth wins, and that ...
EHUD OLMERT Emerging from embattled and humble beginnings, the Jewish state has exceeded all expectations for it...
EHUD OLMERT Arafat is the greatest instigator of terror.
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EHUD OLMERT I have reached a conclusion that when we have to make a choice between greater Israel or a Jewish de...
EHUD OLMERT Today is the birthday of prime minister Ariel Sharon. We all pray for his health and wish for his sp...
EHUD OLMERT We can never totally return to the indefensible pre-1967 borders, ... We simply cannot afford to mak...
EHUD OLMERT There will be no reverse in this decision, ... The Orient House has become a symbol of provocations,...
EHUD OLMERT We're under pressure because we haven't reached the point where we can form a stable government yet.
EHUD OLMERT Everything that can strengthen Abu Mazen is favourable.
EHUD OLMERT Stopping all the violent and hostile actions means ending the smuggling of arms into the Gaza territ...
EHUD OLMERT Palestinian violence is not a response to the capture of the West Bank and Gaza. Palestinian nationa...
EHUD OLMERT I was not interested in being minister of defense or minister of foreign affairs.
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EHUD OLMERT Israel stands proudly at the forefront of international achievement. The world's leading corpora...
EHUD OLMERT The State of Israel, in partnership with Project Better Place and Renault-Nissan, is set to become t...
EHUD OLMERT When public figures write memoirs, there is always some indecision regarding how much they want to w...
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EHUD OLMERT Promoting tolerance and human dignity is one of mankind's unfinished challenges.
EHUD OLMERT The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli histo...
EHUD OLMERT I've been mayor of the city of Jerusalem, which is perhaps, in some ways, more complex and more ...
EHUD OLMERT I want you to be ready to take my place, Ariel Sharon told me.
EHUD OLMERT When armed people from Hamas and armed people from Fatah are standing opposite each other, there is ...
EHUD OLMERT There is nowhere I encounter greater understanding for Israel's existential issues than in the O...
EHUD OLMERT Maaele Adumim is part of Israel. Gush Etzion is part of Israel.
EHUD OLMERT [Palestinian militants] started this terror, they have made the use of human bombs, those suicidal a...
EHUD OLMERT The history of the Zionist enterprise is well-known: surrounded and outnumbered by hostile neighbour...
EHUD OLMERT When it was not very comfortable, politically, for me, I said things which lots of people didn't...
EHUD OLMERT I'm not expressing any ultimatum. If we reach the conclusion that the Palestinians are not prepared ...
EHUD OLMERT It's no secret that we won't invest in coming years the same sums we once invested in construction a...
EHUD OLMERT When I addressed international forums as prime minister, the Israeli people expected me to present b...
EHUD OLMERT As one of the participants in the Aqaba summit, I can testify that Israel fully expected the Palesti...
EHUD OLMERT Palestinians want Israel to return back into boundaries, the width of which is 12 km., that can be c...
EHUD OLMERT This is a sign of absolute weakness by the prime minister of Israel ... if he will technically agree...
EHUD OLMERT We are in a war, a very brutal war that has been waged against every Jewish person in the heart of J...
EHUD OLMERT These two leaders are determined to carry on this fight against terror, not by making statements, no...
EHUD OLMERT Disengagement is a response to certain demographic realities, ... Within a few years, due to the hig...
EHUD OLMERT I have faith in his judgment and in his sense of responsibility.
EHUD OLMERT This is a difficult situation that we are not accustomed to.
EHUD OLMERT I have to think about the possible ramifications of an early retirement.
EHUD OLMERT I don't like this terminology that you have no choice. You always have a choice.
EHUD OLMERT I'm entirely free of any suspicions or complaints about the Obama administration. I think the Ob...
EHUD OLMERT We believe that some maybe are still under the wreckage here, and the special units of the army are ...
EHUD OLMERT simply don't trust the Palestinians.
EHUD OLMERT The current situation cannot last,
EHUD OLMERT We are talking about a desire to define the permanent borders of Israel in the framework of an agree...
EHUD OLMERT Bibi wants to destroy everything for his own personal interests.
EHUD OLMERT Otherwise there can be no progress with an administration in which there are terrorist organizations...
EHUD OLMERT I always wake up early Saturday morning, and I have a little bit more time, so I go to the gym.
EHUD OLMERT Historic scores cannot be settled, and scars cannot be obliterated.
EHUD OLMERT I have to make sure that I am doing the right thing. I can't afford to make any mistake.
EHUD OLMERT What's the logic of investing millions in agriculture if it will not pay off?
EHUD OLMERT I love my country more than anything else.
EHUD OLMERT There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia...
EHUD OLMERT When you fight for the impossible, sometimes you lose everything.
EHUD OLMERT The United States is a superpower whose influence reaches across oceans and beyond borders.
EHUD OLMERT The fundamental interest - long-range strategic interest - of the state of Israel is that we will ha...
EHUD OLMERT There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - eve...
EHUD BARAK Iran sees India, China, Pakistan and, allegedly, Israel around them with nuclear weapons.
EHUD BARAK The Islamization process in Arab countries is very disturbing.
EHUD BARAK When you launch a surgical operation, you must already be well deployed to follow it through with la...
EHUD BARAK Once Iraq becomes a nuclear power, the very decision to go to war against it would become a totally ...
EHUD BARAK If Israel does not find the way to disengage from the Palestinians, its future might resemble the ex...
EHUD BARAK I will not discuss future hypothetical situations.
EHUD BARAK Israel cannot afford to be duped.
EHUD BARAK Prime Minister, you have blood on your hands.
EHUD BARAK At this place, Jews have prayed throughout the generations, and it is fitting that the message of br...
EHUD BARAK The red line must be drawn on Iran's nuclear enrichment program because these enrichment facilit...
EHUD BARAK a gimmick that has no importance.
EHUD BARAK I am confident the Obama administration will work professionally with any Israeli government.
EHUD BARAK I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both priva...
EHUD BARAK The Palestinian Authority cannot hold the stick at both ends: to incite violence, to participate in ...
EHUD BARAK I don't think the CIA should be involved in counting the number of policemen in the Gaza Strip to ch...
EHUD BARAK One of the lessons learned in the Middle East is to never try to anticipate the other side's mov...
EHUD BARAK There is a perception across the Middle East that America is weakened. I believe the perception is w...
EHUD BARAK The role of Europe, with Great Britain as a central player in it, could be to create an atmosphere o...
EHUD BARAK I still believe that Mr. Assad is a strong and reliable leader, ... He is the Syrian leader with who...
EHUD BARAK The Temple Mount is (the) only place under dispute,
EHUD BARAK Israel is much more effective when the Israelis are convinced that we are on the moral high ground: ...
EHUD BARAK I'm no wealthier than Bibi Netanyahu or Arik Sharon. I don't feel that I'm more hedonist...
EHUD BARAK we do not intend to drag our feet for another three years.
EHUD BARAK As a political leader, he is almost personally the dominant figure in every blunder that we have got...
EHUD BARAK I have to say in anguish that we have not yet succeeded, ... because we did not find a partner that ...
EHUD BARAK The people of the Middle East are ready for the dawn of a new era, ... I believe it is our duty, lea...
EHUD BARAK Your sensitivity, your gestures conquered the hearts of all Israelis.
EHUD BARAK Once there will be an agreement, if and when there will be an agreement, the enthusiasm within the p...
EHUD BARAK We want peace, but not at any price.
EHUD BARAK I believe the most complicated issue is Jerusalem , ... But I believe that if there will be a breakt...
EHUD BARAK hopeful that, in response to our readiness to take calculated risk, without violating our national i...
EHUD BARAK We came here to recommit to his way, we came here to tell him, 'Yitzhak, your way has won out, and w...
EHUD BARAK I cannot penetrate the soul of Arafat. I cannot know in advance whether, behind all the masks, he...
EHUD BARAK The Syrian rebels, weakened by infighting, have also been victims of the growing rift between the U....
EHUD BARAK We are filled with confidence that we will not let this opportunity get away from us. This time we w...
EHUD BARAK We came to tell you we are not afraid,
EHUD BARAK We do not lose hope,
EHUD BARAK Jerusalem and the Temple Mount are the cornerstones of Jewish identity. No Israeli prime minister wi...
EHUD BARAK Iran poses the most serious long-term threat to regional stability.
EHUD BARAK Time is running out, and I don't believe that President Clinton or Israel will be able to negotiate,...
EHUD BARAK I feel that the Israeli people want to see a new way of governing. The people want to see change, un...
EHUD BARAK I came here as a messenger of the people of Israel who have called for change and renewal. And I am ...
EHUD BARAK The true path requires courage ... and it is possible that the public is not fully ready for the pai...
EHUD BARAK In fact, we have finished displaying our positions. We displayed our readiness to examine ideas and ...
EHUD BARAK I'm sure that the people, like me, will stand by this government and do everything we can to help it...
EHUD BARAK Our children have to be educated in the values of equality, freedom of choice and democracy,
EHUD BARAK I suggest to everyone that you look less at gestures and more at action on the ground, ... Everythin...
EHUD BARAK There is a golden opportunity with Arafat in power, with Clinton still in power, with this governmen...
EHUD BARAK There are no negotiations, ... There are no discussions about renewing negotiations and first of all...
EHUD BARAK There is no failure, even though the level of expectation is very low.
EHUD BARAK In order to cooperate with him, you cannot weaken him beyond a certain point, you cannot humiliate h...
EHUD BARAK no reason to wait.
EHUD BARAK tough diplomatic battle. It is impossible to predict how long it will last or the results.
EHUD BARAK their own fate and the fate of their families, their children, all of us.
EHUD BARAK I stand my ground, look reality in the eye, remove the mask from (Palestinian President Yasser) Araf...
EHUD BARAK a true partner for (Yitzhak Rabin) all along his life, and the woman that carried the torch of the p...
EHUD BARAK We are doing what we are doing here to ensure that our children ... will be left with a stronger Isr...
EHUD BARAK united and eternal capital of Israel.
EHUD BARAK Just a year ago the public gave us a mandate to lead -- not to protect what exists, but to change th...
EHUD BARAK War is no picnic. Wars should be prevented, and if you can't prevent them, you have to put them ...
EHUD BARAK To think that you can - as a Zionist, Jewish independent state at the end of the 20th century - rule...
EHUD BARAK What we have is a bad atmosphere building up all over the Middle East, we have a new climate in whic...
EHUD YAARI It is a mathematical model of computation that is defined by a mathematical set of rules. By specify...
EHUD SHAPIRO This re-designed device uses its DNA input as its source of fuel.
EHUD SHAPIRO People are worried that fiber to the curb goes away. I don't think it's true.
EHUD GELBLUM In fact, we had a hard time counting all the ways (Chief Executive John) Chambers basically said Cis...
EHUD GELBLUM arbitrator, policeman and judge.
EHUD BARAK Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palesti...
EHUD BARAK The Labor party under my leadership is working to bring the Israeli people together from all nationa...
EHUD BARAK I believe President Obama means everything he says about sticking to the unprecedented backing of Is...
EHUD BARAK We are living in an open world. There is a freedom of speech and, clearly, freedom of speculation.
EHUD BARAK Sometimes you have to subordinate strategic considerations to tactical needs.
EHUD BARAK Assad wanted Israel to capitulate in advance to all his demands. Only then would he agree to enter i...
EHUD BARAK Together with the president of the United States let us be able to bring peace and security to our p...
EHUD BARAK Leadership can change its mind; leadership can open its eye. Leadership can even be replaced.
EHUD BARAK Ladies and gentlemen, the relevant question is not when Iran will get the bomb. The relevant questio...
EHUD BARAK In Israel, generally speaking, politics is much more familiar than any other place. We all know each...
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