In a given situation, maybe everything isn´t as it seems.


Norwegian Prime Minister Torbjorn Jagland

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I haven´t said it before, but I am happy to repeat it.
NORWEGIAN PRIME MINISTER TORBJORN JAGLAND
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I look at him and realize, maybe I overreacted. Maybe more than once.
LISA SCHROEDER
There can be no doubt the prime minister should seriously consider stepping down -- possibly as prim...
KARPAL SINGH
Let's use some codes every word which isn't there or sound some kind non-sense, let's put it a code ...
DEYTH BANGER
I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the Un...
DAVID CAMERON
I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.
KAMISESE MARA
his record as a prime minister is absolutely mediocre.
BRIAN MULRONEY
Some day he may be the next prime minister of Iraq, so it seems to me you want to start a relationsh...
CHRISTOPHER SHAYS
A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled.
EHUD OLMERT
The prime minister, after two months of deafness, is realizing the gravity of the situation he has c...
JULIEN DRAY
Isn't it ironic that a nightmare can masquerade as a dream?
KEN POIROT
Since the prime minister has not given any specific instructions, I want to sufficiently confirm his...
TOSHIHIRO NIKAI
Off, end this lies it's not awesome. Please take this crap, second very clever and smart, but I want...
DEYTH BANGER
No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. An...
MARGARET THATCHER
In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a maj...
PETER SINGER
I am not the Prime Minister of French capitalism. I am the Prime Minister of France.
LIONEL JOSPIN
He will not continue to be prime minister, but maybe he will be able to understand and to speak.
DR. JOSE COHEN
We hope we will discuss with the prime minister the whole situation in the Middle East and the whole...
YASSER ARAFAT
The prime minister has decided to complete the official part of the visit and return home early beca...
TARIQ ALTAF
Most importantly, I am thankful to Prime Minister Koizumi, ... As I said openly during my court-mart...
CHARLES JENKINS
It is a bizarre and shocking revelation that the prime minister claims to have been guided by the su...
EVAN HARRIS
Sharon has reshaped himself as the ultimate centrist Israeli prime minister.
GERALD STEINBERG
I don't disown our responsibility and my responsibility as Prime Minister,
SONIA GANDHI
As prime minister, I have been working on creating a democratic and independent Kosovo.
BAJRAM KOSUMI
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
Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.
ALEXANDER DOWNER
I don't think Mr. Sharon has given up his hope of achieving the ultimate post of prime minister. As ...
CHEMI SHALEV
As prime minister, Timoshenko pursued populist policies, increasing pensions and social assistance p...
IGOR BURAKOVSKY
Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don&#...
KRISTEN WIIG
The prime minister is not soft.
BASSAM RHIDA
Netanyahu has already defeated a sitting prime minister (Peres in 1996), and he can do it again.
HANAN CRYSTAL
A zombie apocalypse isn't the most jovial situation.
DANAI GURIRA
After almost nine years as prime minister, Blair has begun losing touch with reality,
ANDREY GROMYKO
Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.
KENNETH CLARKE
I'd be prouder still to say I was Canada's 10th woman prime minister.
KIM CAMPBELL
Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am ...
ROBERT WALPOLE
If the prime minister doesn't resign, we'll stay here. We'll stay here for a very long time. We thin...
CHAMLONG SRIMUANG
The abuse of state resources in favor of the prime minister continued, as well as an overwhelming me...
BRUCE GEORGE
It was fairly significant with the Prime Minister coming to visit.
GEORGE MCGUIRE
It is a deliberate attempt to undermine the new Palestinian Cabinet and prime minister.
SAEB ERAKAT
Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when ...
BERNARD LEVIN
Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.
WILLIAM C. BRYANT
This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS
Given the importance of the issues at hand, the president and Prime Minister Netanyahu and Chairman ...
JOE LOCKHART
I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding ...
BORIS JOHNSON
This prime minister should have known better,
STEPHEN HARPER
The Prime Minister is having mild fever.
SANJAYA BARU
You cannot move on, when the prime minister remains in denial,
CHARLES KENNEDY
I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born he...
YITZHAK RABIN
Android is often given as a free replacement for a feature phone, and the experience isn't as go...
PHIL SCHILLER
What I'm trying to say is, as I get older, all the things I've done to make money have become less i...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS
The way I see it, more people are wired with broadband from 9 to 5 during the day than watch TV at n...
MARK BURNETT
You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetin...
PAUL KEATING
As far as I'm concerned, and I hope for the prime minister too, you can't pay a political price (for...
MARIANO RAJOY
Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when ...
BERNARD LEVIN
Winning isn't everything, but wanting it is.
ARNOLD PALMER
Prime Minister, you have blood on your hands.
EHUD BARAK
Given a strong concern that (politics) would plunge into huge confusion if the prime minister pushes...
YOMIURI SHIMBUN
In Japan, usually, once you become prime minister, you do not have a second chance.
SHINZO ABE
The reaction has been so positive, we think it is worth informing the (foreign) minister. It is very...
TOR NAESS
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 prime minister had a CT scan that showed that the bleeding has stopped. He was then put in the n...
SHLOMO MOR YOSEF
The prime minister has clearly said his visits are private ones. The difference between a private vi...
HIDENAO NAKAGAWA
No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. An...
MARGARET THATCHER
It was the decision of then Prime Minister Eisaku Sato that Japan would pay (the $4 million) as long...
BUNROKU YOSHINO
I don't know, maybe Australian humour isn't supposed to be funny. It's as dry as the Sah...
NICK CAVE
Maybe forced retirement isn't necessary after all.
BEN STILLER
It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locke...
BRIAN MULRONEY
Our rally will persist until the prime minister quits.
CHAMLONG SRIMUANG
He may never be prime minister and he may never be minister, and that's probably as much his doing a...
JEFF KENNETT
It was the prime minister. He told me: 'bring me your separation maps tomorrow'.
ARNON SOFFER
I think I would rather be a prime minister than a taxi driver.
JENS STOLTENBERG
The first law I passed in my cabinet was a law eliminating the double salary for the prime minister ...
ENRICO LETTA
When a friend is sick, I see the situation for what it is, not what it isn't, and I offer to hel...
ANDREW J. BERNSTEIN
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
VINCE LOMBARDI
Winning and losing isn't everything; sometimes, the journey is just as important as the outcome.
ALEX MORGAN
Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
ANITA LOOS
My interaction with the Indian prime minister in Katmandu, although very informal, was useful,
PERVEZ MUSHARRAF
The prime minister has just fallen off the high wire.
ALEX SALMOND
Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi prefers smelling roses than removing thorns
LINO SPITERI
Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
MARGARET THATCHER
The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
HAROLD WILSON
I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.
CAROLINE RHEA
I'm the guy everybody wanted to live next door. They just didn't want me to be prime ministe...
NEIL KINNOCK
If it was up to the youth, I would be the Prime Minister of Israel.
BOAZ WACHTEL
I don't for a moment think that the Prime Minister can stop it by the wave of a wand,
MR HOWARD
Clearly there are things you cannot realistically do as Prime Minister because they are going to inc...
CHRIS GRAYLING
No Israeli public will support an Israeli prime minister who is seen as needlessly entering into a c...
CHEMI SHALEV
We call for the prime minister to resign. As long as he does not resign, we will continue with our p...
CHAMLONG SRIMUANG
It is a remarkable comment on our affairs that the former prime minister of a great sovereign state ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL
Of course, I will fight for the post of prime minister in the parliamentary elections,
YULIA TYMOSHENKO
It is shameful that people like Prime Minister Gonzi tried to depict people in favour of divorce as ...
JOSEPH MUSCAT
We have a Prime Minister who spends more time focusing on the problems of his party than on the prob...
JOSEPH MUSCAT
Whom does the prime minister prefer? Tinky Winkey, Dipsy, Po, or La-La?
WILL FERRELL
We haven't yet convinced the prime minister to withdraw the C.P.E..
BERNARD THIBAULT
Prime Minister Koizumi made the visit based on his personal judgment.
SADAKAZU TANIGAKI
Their celebration is a bit premature and exaggerated ? the prime minister is very well.
RAANAN GISSIN

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Everything is connected with everything!
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I have said it a thousand times before, and now I say it the third and the last time.
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I am far more democratic, than anyone suspects.
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That which is loved is always beautiful
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He who laughs, lasts.
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Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer
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It's better to feed one cat than many mice.
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It is an interesting concept which is worth thinking about.
INTERIOR MINISTER
So far, the (rescue) operations continue. God Willing, there will be more survivors rescued.
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An attack on democracy, freedom and citizens' rights.
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I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me...
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AGRICULTURE MINISTER GHEORGHE FLUTUR
We hope it's a low intensity virus. We are continuing measures to isolate the affected area.
AGRICULTURE MINISTER GHEORGHE FLUTUR
All these would be done in accordance with international laws and regulations prevailing in both cou...
BROADCASTING MINISTER PRIYARANJAN DASMUNSI
I don't think the political spectrum is very useful. So many issues overlap.
ENVIRONMENT MINISTER MARTIN BURSíK
I have not received any summons. I just read the papers and saw my picture, but nevertheless I'm rea...
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This virus has no borders.
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This is a major boost to our economy.
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I believe that this will take place this year.
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That is an excellent success rate.
HEALTH MINISTER ULLA SCHMIDT
You will not only be richer but healthier too.
HEALTH MINISTER ULLA SCHMIDT
It (the volume of subsidized fertilizer) will not change.
INDUSTRY MINISTER FAHMI IDRIS
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INDUSTRY MINISTER FAHMI IDRIS
The figures on Chinese textile imports that we have from Customs and Excise and the Central Statisti...
INDUSTRY MINISTER FAHMI IDRIS
The decision on the tariff increase must be transparent, managerially accountable and rational.
INDUSTRY MINISTER FAHMI IDRIS
The total production of the four plants will be small as they are just pilot projects, but we expect...
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Therefore, the government will launch an operation to enforce the law against the practice.
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Don't make the planned tariff hike a scapegoat for the companies managerial problems. They said they...
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Death is a confirmation of the believer's creed. For the skeptic it is discovery, immense and late.
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