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Every prime minister ... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

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

If our system of cabinet government is to work effectively, the prime minister of the day must appoint ministers he or she trusts and then leave them to carry out that policy.

The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.

I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subject, but when there is a duty to speak, silence is unacceptable. Silence can be a strategy, silence can be a tactic, but silence can never be an answer to the ills of our polity and the fault lines of our society.

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

I serve at the discretion of the prime minister.

Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.

It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state.