Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918–1999) Indian politician
Shankar Dayal Sharma, 81, Former President of India
Resignation Press Conference after leadership ballot <br class="br"> "Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard Defeated In Shock Leadership Challenge by Kevin Rudd" http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/06/26/australia-julia-gillard-defeated-leadership-contest_n_3501448.html?utm_hp_ref=uk, in Huffington Post, 26 June 2013
Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918–1999) Indian politician
Shankar Dayal Sharma, 81, Former President of India
Julia Gillard (1961) Australian politician and lawyer, 27th Prime Minister of Australia
The Killing Season, Episode three: The Long Shadow (2010–13)
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
When Churchill was in opposition after 1945, he led the Conservative Party in a debate about the Health Service. As he listened to Aneurin Bevan’s opening speech, he called for some statistics about infant mortality … [which were] supplied, copiously and accurately, by Iain Macleod, then working in the back rooms of the Conservative Research Department. But, in his speech, Churchill made only one bold and sweeping use … [of Macleod’s detailed research]. Encountering MacLeod afterward, Churchill made the above statement. As cited in The Life of Politics (1968), Henry Fairlie, Methuen, pp. 203-204.
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Context: I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is that, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.
William Hague (1961) British politician
25 October 2000, House of Commons, Prime Minister's Questions.
2000
P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) Indian politician
On his purported deep interest in astrological predictions.
While nobody was opening their mouths in other parties, mouths were wide open in the Congress
Epeli Ganilau (1951) Fijian politician
In response to Mataca's claim that Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase had misled a delegation of church leaders as to the true contents of the government's Reconciliation and Unity Bill, which Mataca and Ganilau both oppose
Reaction to comments from Archbishop Petero Mataca, 23 June 2005
“I don't think there will be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
On Val meets the V.I.P.s, BBC Television (5 March 1973) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=101992 <br class="br">Education Secretary