“Today is indeed an historic occasion when as a first chair-in-office woman I hand over to another woman chair in office, your Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in the presence of a woman head of the Commonwealth, Her Royal Highness, Her Majesty the Queen of England.” FirstsHandsTodayOfficeEnglandOccasionsMinistersQueensChairsPrimeRoyalPrime MinisterHistoricMajestyCommonwealthJuliaAnother WomanQueen Of EnglandHighness Author:Kamla Persad-Bissessar
“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.” ThinkingWantYearsPersonsDoeRealMightMovingHousePresidentWhiteCitiesFourTypeKingsEnglandCongressManagersMinistersQueensWhite HousePrimeFour YearsPresidencyPrime Minister Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.” PeopleShouldHardEnglandMinistersBrownConvincePrimePrime MinisterScots Author:Boris Johnson
“This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a strange fund of enthusiasm, a quality which ought never to be possessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Prime Minister of England. The Bishop of London sympathies with everything that is earnest; but what is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.” SpiritQualityStrangeOughtEnglandErrorsLondonContraryEnthusiasmMinistersFundPrimePossessedPrime MinisterEarnestBishopsIdiosyncrasiesCanterbury Author:Benjamin Disraeli
“I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England [sic] for having cumulated all his other betrayals of the national interest and honour, by his last terrible exhibition of dishonour, weakness and gullibility. The depths of infamy which our accurst "love of peace" can lower us are unfathomable.” LastsInterestTerribleWeaknessEnglandDepthBetrayalBitterMinistersCursePrimeHonourPrime MinisterSolemnExhibitionsUnfathomableNational InterestsInfamyGullibilityDishonour Author:Enoch Powell
“The first life insurance societies where formed in England in the years between 1692 and 1720. In America, life insurance became available to the clergy through the Presbyterian Ministers Fund, founded in 1759 (still in existence), and the Episcopal Corporation, founded ten years later (subsequently merged).” YearsFirstsStillsAmericaExistenceTenEnglandAvailableCorporationsMinistersFundClergyPresbyterians Author:Andrew Tobias
“I took a hasty trip to Germany, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and England to talk to the officials of each Government about their pension provisions, and to talk to the responsible ministers in each country about the political "whys" of their legislation.” CountryGovernmentPoliticalEnglandResponsibleMinistersOfficialsGermanyLegislationProvisionPensionSwedenDenmarkHastyNetherlands Book:Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage Source: Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage
“Today a Scot is leading a British army in France [Field Marshall Douglas Haig], another is commanding the British Grand Fleet at sea [Admiral David Beatty], while a third directs the Imperial General Staff at home [Sir William Roberton]. The Lord Chancellor is a Scot [Viscount Finlay]; so are the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Foreign Secretary [Bonar Law and Arthur Balfour]. The Prime Minister is a Welshman [David Lloyd George], and the First Lord of the Admiralty is an Irishman [Lord Carson]. Yet no one has ever brought in a bill to give home rule to England!” GivingFirstsHomeTodayLawLordSeaFieldsThirdsArmyEnglandBillsBritishFranceMinistersPrimeStaffSecretaryPrime MinisterArthurBritish HistoryScotsIrishmenAdmiralBeattyBritish ArmyHaigHome Rule Author:John Hay Beith
“I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the discipline of political connection, animated by the principle of private honor, I feel certain that a popular assembly would sink before the power or the corruption of a minister.” WorldFeelsLooksGovernmentPoliticalCertainPrinciplesDisciplineHonorConnectionsEnglandCorruptionMinistersLook UpAnimatedAssemblyParliamentaryParliamentary Government Author:Benjamin Disraeli
“One of the particular things that impressed me was one visitor [of NAACP] - I think it was - it wasn't the Prime Minister of England. We were located then on 14th Street and Fifth Avenue, up several flights of rickety stairs, and he came all the way up those stairs to see Walter [White], largely because of certain kinds of impact, I think, that the Association seemingly was having.” ThinkingWayKindCertainWhiteStreetsParticularEnglandImpactFlightMinistersPrimeAssociationImpressedPrime MinisterFifthAvenuesStairsVisitorsNaacpFifth AvenueWalter White Author:Ella Baker
“I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.” WantWholeUnitedEnglandKingdomsMinistersPrimePrime MinisterUnited Kingdom Book:Cameron on Cameron: conversations with Dylan Jones Source: Cameron on Cameron: conversations with Dylan Jones
“When I warned them [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!” WarFightingThreeWeekEnglandMinistersBritainNecksChickensPrimeDividedPrime MinisterCabinets Author:Winston Churchill