“Now, then, what'd you like to be first? Prime Minister? Oh, no — I've made that deal already.”
Peter Cook (1937–1995) British architect
Bedazzled (1967)
Brexit: Rule out no-deal, Jeremy Corbyn tells Theresa May https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46905661 BBC News (17 January 2019) <br class="br">2010s, 2019
“Now, then, what'd you like to be first? Prime Minister? Oh, no — I've made that deal already.”
Peter Cook (1937–1995) British architect
Bedazzled (1967)
“So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet – big deal.”
Will Self (1961) English writer and journalist
Interviewed by The Independent on Sunday, April 1997. http://web.archive.org/web/19970429201840/http://www.bbc.co.uk/election97/news/0419/brief.htm
Tariq Aziz (1936–2015) Iraqi Foreign Minister under Saddam Hussein
About the Dujail Attack, wcbstv.com (May 24, 2006), "Takes Stand In Saddam Trial" https://web.archive.org/web/20071025045024/http://wcbstv.com/topstories/Tariq.Aziz.Saddam.2.268188.html
Julia Gillard (1961) Australian politician and lawyer, 27th Prime Minister of Australia
The Killing Season, Episode two: Great Moral Challenge (2009–10)
Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
Bloomberg Television (regarding Iran), April 2006 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/09/AR2007080900855_pf.html <br class="br">Senate years (2001 – January 19, 2007)
“I would be a disaster as a prime minister.”
V. P. Singh (1931–2008) Indian politician
Source: India Today 10 quotes that said it all http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/10+quotes+that+said+it+all/1/23070.html, India Today, 19 December 2008.
“I am an accidental prime minister.”
Manmohan Singh (1932) 13th Prime Minister of India
Manmohan Singh
The Accidental Prime Minister (2014)
Norodom Ranariddh (1944) Cambodian politician
by Norodom Sihanouk in 1996
[Jason Barber, http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/royal-trumps-table-aces-sleeve, Royal trumps on the table, aces up the sleeve, 22 March 1996, 29 August 2015, Phnom Penh Post]
“For once, prime minister, I believe you.”
Michael Howard (1941) British politician
Commons flour bomb attack exposes loophole, White, Michael, 2004-05-20, the Guardian, en, 2018-06-29 http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2004/may/20/uk.houseofcommons, <br class="br">Response to Tony Blair, who insisted he had not staged a Fathers 4 Justice protest which had just interrupted Prime Minister's Question.