Better to make prime ministers out of prisoners than prisoners out of prime ministers.
Lord Caradon
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TERRY PRATCHETT I have dealt with prisoners on every level. I have made the initial arrest, transported prisoners an...
TIM NOLDER I think prime ministers, I actually think Cabinet ministers should be subject to intense scrutiny, I...
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MEHMET MURAT ILDAN This Sonia Gandhi thing should be seen in perspective - the people of India have an emotional attach...
SHARAD PAWAR No senior official -- neither the interior minister, nor the defense or justice ministers, nor the p...
LIONEL JOSPIN Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occ...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN a large number of pictures involving prisoners and poses with prisoners.
JOSEPH DARBY To board out all of our prisoners for one year will cost us approximately $1.86 million.
LEGISLATOR DENNIS KORCE I appreciate my brother, His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prim...
KHALIFA BIN ZAYED AL NAHYAN Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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DILIP KUMAR In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If ...
ALAN CLARK I promise, through my conscience and honor, to fulfill faithfully the obligations of the post of pri...
JOSE LUIS RODRIGUEZ ZAPATERO Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man's judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be...
GEORGE WHITEFIELD I want to enable prisoners to express themselves and get it out in public.
STEPHEN HARTNETT Well, Australians should speak for the national interests of Australia, and whatever role former Aus...
PAUL KEATING In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life....
ALAN CLARK We're nothing more than prisoners to your desire.
JESSIE BURTON Remission is for all prisoners without looking at the type of crimes which had been carried out,
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the prisoners of addiction and the...
IVAN ILLICH In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the p...
IVAN ILLICH There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much...
HAROLD WILSON We are prisoners of ideas.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Presidents and prime ministers, whether they live in the rich or the poor world, are insulated and i...
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one ...
MARTIN JACQUES The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of wh...
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GEORGE ELIOT We are the prisoners of ideas.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Even jailers are prisoners of something
PRINCE HOPKINS AMACHREE Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You look around the world in 2013, and you say, 'How many prime ministers or presidents are in p...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL Music must rank as the highest of the arts -- more than any other, it ministers to human welfare.
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GREGG LASKOSKI I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work close...
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CHARLES POWELL This prime minister should have known better,
STEPHEN HARPER interior ministry services of resorting to torture and ransoming prisoners.
THE COMMITTEE So I was smacked out on the Prime Minister's jet, big deal.
WILL SELF We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are ...
JOHN DONNE More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.
JOHN POWELL And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, f...
JAMES CLAVELL Just as the England football manager starts with bells and flags and balloons and ends up reviled, s...
TERRY WOGAN I just had a read-out from the talks [between ministers in London and Geneva this week]. Nothing has...
RAYMOND YOUNG I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.
LALU PRASAD YADAV I am not the Prime Minister of French capitalism. I am the Prime Minister of France.
LIONEL JOSPIN We put electrodes on the ears or testicles of prisoners,
PAUL AUSSARESSES I have said to the prime minister that if the military came out the image of ... the government woul...
GENERAL SONTHI BOONYARATGLIN There's been quite a lot of debate about the application of the Geneva Convention. ... Whether they ...
KOFI ANNAN We visit prisoners on death row, and some of them are saved, but we believe their sentences should b...
JERRY FALWELL The kids are out of the house, they're in their prime earning years, and they stand to inherit a hug...
BOB WHITLEY I'm going to make sure (it is) really prime land, ... in the middle of nowhere.
JOE BACA We are all prisoners of circumstance at one point or another.
ANDREA CREMER If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?
ZEBULON PIKE Not all political prisoners are innocents.
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DAVID CAMERON I kind of modeled Optimus Prime's voice out of many people I had known over the years, my family...
PETER CULLEN These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, ...
MURIEL SPARK I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these pris...
JAMES INHOFE We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.
RICK WARREN we are product of our past but we don't have to be prisoners of it.
RICK WARREN There seems to be a sense in the British media that prime ministers enjoy going to war. They do not....
JONATHAN POWELL With me, they (the prisoners) don't struggle. I know the real way. If it's a raw guy, they will stru...
DARSHAN SINGH Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, minist...
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