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People innately have lots of solutions. It sounds like an obvious thing, but everyone thinks that they can be prime minister; everyone thinks that they can do a better job.

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.

There are Americans will find it difficult to believe that the Prime Minister can simply impose candidates on ridings, and can so efficiently move individuals out of private life and into the Cabinet with virtually no resort to the electorate.

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

I serve at the discretion of the prime minister.

Being prime minister is not a job to be performed with an eye for the exit.

What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?

I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.

A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations.