The political quotes thread

[BBKing]

You're listening to Radio Five, aren't you. I found myself shouting 'Shut up, Blair' repeatedly during that segment. Humbug. Their trail for sports coverage that is full of quotes from Blair also strikes me as over-the-top.

All recent I see. what about "peace in our time" just before the breakout of WWII http://www2.wwnorton.com/college/his...k/ralprs36.htm

[punky]

Yeaahhuugghh!! - Howard Dean

[Osem]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

All recent I see. what about "peace in our time" just before the breakout of WWII http://www2.wwnorton.com/college/his...k/ralprs36.htm

Quite right - whilst Bliar desreves to be exposed for what he always was, I was hoping this thread would produce some other gems whether stirring, incisive, laughable (Prescott??), ironic or just plain funny.

Of course Winston Churchill delivered some terrific quotes.

"He is one of those orators of whom it was well said 'Before they get up, they do not know what they are going to say; when they are speaking, they do not know what they are saying; and when they have sat down, they do not know what they have said"

Was Prescott around then????..........................

"Anyone can rat but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat"

"I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the programme which I most wanted to see was the one descirbed as the Boneless Wonder. My parents judged that the spectacle would be too revolting and demoralizing for my youthtful eyes and I have waited 50 years to see the boneless wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench"

"The utmost the Prime Minister (Chamberlain) has been able to secure for Czechoslovakia and in the matters which were in dispute, has been to secure that the German dictator instead of snatching his victuals from the table has been content to have them served to him course by course."

"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"

"When I warned them (French Govt) 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!"

"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me"

"The only recorded instance in history of a rat swimming towards a sinking ship"

"A sheep in sheep's clothing" (Atlee)

[punky]

The best, IMO:

Lady Astor to Churchill: "If you were my husband, I'd put arsenic in your coffee."
Churchill: "Madam, if I were your husband, I'd drink it!"

[TheDaddy]

This site always makes me laugh, although I am pretty sure poor old George is being portrayed to be dumber than he actually is, wasn't it his intellectual equal Dan Quayle that welcomed George's mum and 'his fellow astronauts'?

http://www.plattbridger.pwp.blueyond...k/bushisms.htm

[TheDaddy]

"A day like today is not a day for soundbites, really. But I feel the hand of history upon our shoulders. I really do."

Hmm I'd have thought it was Gordon's hand, giving you a little shove, even back then