It is fitting that we should have buried the unknown Prime Minister by the side of the Unknown Soldier.

-Asquith
  Remark at the Westminster  Abbey funeral of Bonar Law, 5 Nov.

The work of a Prime Minister is the loneliest job in the world.

-Baldwin (of Bewdley), Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl
  Speech, 9  Jan.

We had intended you to be The next Prime Minister but three: The stocks were sold; the Press was squared; The Middle Class was quite prepared. But as it is!† My language fails! Go out and govern New South Wales!

-Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre
  Cautionary  Tales,'Jim'.

   Sometimes I forget I'm Prime Minister. To me, I'm just Tony Blair.

-Blair,Tony (Anthony Charles Lynton)
  In The Sun, 29  Jul.

After all, it is not every man who nearly becomes Prime Minister of England.

-Butler, Baron
  On being passed over as Harold Macmillan's successor in favour of  Alec Douglas-Home,  Jan.

The best Prime Minister we've got.

-Butler, Baron
Attributed comment on Harold Macmillan, made on a train going to the Party Conference in Brighton.

Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstoneöan extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisyand superstition and with one commanding characteristic.Whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying, or scribblingöneveragentleman.Heisso vain that he wants to figure in history as the settler of all the great questions; but a parliamentary Constitution is not favourable to such ambitions. Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
c.1874  Letter.

The polite fiction that the Prime Minister's advisers are responsible is absurd.Control-freakTony doesn't let Alastair Campbell and Peter Mandelson go around saying anything they like† Peter isn't the Prince of Darkness, though he may be Lady Macbeth.

-Follett, Ken
  In the Observer, 2  Jul.

I've known every prime minister to a greater or lesser extent since Balfour, and most of them have died unhappy.

-Hailsham, Quintin (McGarel) Hogg, 2nd Viscount
Attributed.

It is the only time that I can ever remember the Prime Minister reading out the conclusions of a meeting that did not take place. They were already written before it started.

-Heseltine, Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron
  Of the Cabinet meeting,  Jan, on the Westland affair at which he resigned as Defence Minister.

My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.

-Johnson, Boris
  In the Observer, 20  Jun.

The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early.

-Richler, Mordecai
Quoted in Time (Canadian edition), 31 May1971.

   No woman in my time will be Prime Minister or Chancellor of the Exchequer or Foreign Secretaryönot the top jobs. Anyway, I would not want to be Prime Minister; you have to give yourself100 per cent.

-Thatcher, Margaret HildaThatcher, Baroness
  On her appointment as a junior Education Minister, in the SundayTelegraph, 26 Oct.

   The main essentials of a successful Prime Minister are sleep and a sense of history.

-Wilson of Rievaulx, (James) Harold Wilson, Baron
  The Governance of Britain.