President of the Executive Council may refer to:
- The Governor-General or Governors of the Australian states in Australia and New Zealand, although the actual title is not used
- A Premier of a Canadian Province (see Premier (Canada))
- The President of the Federal Executive Council, the full title of the Yugoslav prime minister from 1953 to 1992
- The President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, Head of government of the Irish Free State (1922–37)
- The President of the Executive Yuan, otherwise known as the Premier of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
- As a former Commonwealth of Nations member, Hong Kong also has a President of the Executive Council in the form of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong. Prior to 1997, the role was played by the Governor of Hong Kong
- See also
- Vice-President of the Executive Council
Famous quotes containing the words president of the, president of, president, executive and/or council:
“We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.”
—Frances E. Willard 1839–1898, U.S. president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union 1879-1891, author, activist. The Woman’s Magazine, pp. 137-40 (January 1887)
“Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, whose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe.”
—Frances E. Willard 1839–1898, U.S. president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union 1879-1891, author, activist. The Woman’s Magazine, pp. 137-40 (January 1887)
“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.”
—Richard M. Nixon (1913–1992)
“One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up of the South, for a sound currency, etc., etc., but I never forgot my party.... I knew that all good measures would suffer if my Administration was followed by the defeat of my party. Result, a great victory in 1880. Executive and legislature both completely Republican.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“I haven’t seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community were asked this week about one of their biggest benefactors, Philip Morris, and its requests that they lobby the New York City Council on the company’s behalf, the pas de deux of self- justification was so painstakingly choreographed that it constituted a performance all by itself.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)