Head of Government Quotes

I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.

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You have a responsibility as a locally elected deputy, but you also have a responsibility as the head of government.

Look, there is parliamentary democracy in most European countries, there is parliamentary democracy in Japan, there is parliamentary democracy in many countries, but in the United States, for some reason, the State is organized differently, there is quite a stringent presidential republic.

As of now, I am in control here in the White House.

Irrespective of their party affiliation or wishes on the matter, those governing from 10 Downing Street now have to take on much of the aura and role of head of state. And this is bound to have heavy consequences for their family.

As for the job of prime minister, I like it, yes. But no more than I've liked other work that I've done as an adult.

Of course we have Queen Elizabeth as head of state, but in many ways we are a kind of republic. We don't have royals in Australia, so it was kind of unusual to run into those kind of people. But aside from that it was quite ordinary.

I mean no snub but presidents don't usually march.

I'm the only president you've got.

I confirmed to the prime minister that we appreciate our friendship.

People said I was king, but I was never king, and I say I'm the prime minister.

I think it might be better to have the President sort of like the King of England - or the Queen - and have the real business of the presidency conducted by ... a city manager-type, a Prime Minister, somebody who's directly answerable to Congress, rather than a person who moves all his friends into the White House and does whatever he wants for four years.

It is a high honour to be elected Prime Minister of Australia.

The prime minister is not a private individual, but the leader of the Jewish State and the Jewish world as a whole.

It is impossible to swear an oath to the German Basic Law without realizing that our constitution is among the most liberal constitutions in the world. As the head of government in such a country, I would stand up to all those who call into question this free, open and tolerant model of society.

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.

Who wouldn't want to play the leader of the free world?

One of the features of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings was [that] she [ Elizabeth II] would have a meeting with each of them. You'd have an allotted time.