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Quotes About Leadership

You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.
~ Paul Keating
The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
~ Aneurin Bevan
Every day, the Prime Minister is a 24-hour servant of the people of India.
~ Manmohan Singh
Boris Johnson's experience in life is telling a lot of porkies about the European Union in Brussels and then becoming prime minister.
~ Nicholas Soames
At the end of the day, the law is the same for the Prime Minister or a common man of India.
~ Akshaye Khanna
One of the most difficult decisions for any prime minister is when to give up on a bad but long-cherished policy.
~ Damian Green
The fact I'm the third female Prime Minister, I never grew up believing my gender would stand in the way of doing anything I wanted.
~ Jacinda Ardern
Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.
~ Kenneth Clarke
I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't.
~ John Major
Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
~ Margaret Thatcher
My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics.
~ Benazir Bhutto
Michael Gove was one of the worst things to ever happen to the education system in this country. David Cameron is the worst Prime Minister this country has ever had.
~ Layla Moran
When I was 14, I told all the girls in my class that I wanted to be the first woman prime minister. Someone else beat me to that!
~ Cherie Blair
I'm the guy everybody wanted to live next door. They just didn't want me to be prime minister.
~ Neil Kinnock
The war has begun between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi. Modi's rule is autocracy and Rahul's soul is democracy.
~ Vijayashanti
My father established the first women's university in the kingdom, abolished slavery, and tried to establish a constitutional monarchy that separates the position of king from that of prime minister.
~ Basmah bint Saud
Those who believe that after I have left the government as prime minister, I will go into a permanent retirement, really should have their heads examined.
~ Lee Kuan Yew
It is a high honour to be elected Prime Minister of Australia.
~ Kevin Rudd
Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.
~ John Key
So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.
~ Tony Blair
Something is going to have to give because, if it doesn't, not only will we get Jacob Rees-Mogg as our prime minister, we will get a devastating hard Brexit which will cause huge damage to our economy for generations to come. And I am not prepared to sit by any longer and put up with this nonsense.
~ Anna Soubry
I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.
~ John Major
If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.
~ Brian Mulroney
If Advaniji did not want, I would never have been Prime Minister.
~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee