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Dennis Skinner: How many civil servants are a) men and b) women?
Tim Renton: All of them
Tim Renton, 6 February 1992
Answer to a parliamentary question.
Hansard
To those waiting with baited breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U Turn, I have only one thing to say. You turn if you want to. The Lady's not for turning.
Margaret Thatcher, 10 October 1980
Conservative Party Conference Speech
Like the Roman I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood.
Enoch Powell, 20 April 1968
Speech in Birmingham
It does not mean of course that the pound here in Britain in your pcoket has been devalued.
Harold Wilson, 19 November 1967
On the 1967 devakuation of the Pound.
A week is a long time in politics.
Harold Wilson, 1964
I intend to march my troops towards the sound of gunfire.
Jo Grimond, 15 September 1963
Liberal Asembly in brighton.
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of human talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exceptuion of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1962
Addressing Nobel Prize winners.
There are some of us, Mr Chairman, who will fight, fight and fight again to save the Party we love.
Hugh Gaitskell, 3 October 1960
The wind of change is blowing through the continent and whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.
Harold Macmillan, 3 February 1960
let's be frank about it, most of our people have never had it so good.
Harold Macmillan, 20 July 1957
Bradford
No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party... So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
Aneurin Bevan, 5 July 1948
On the inuaguration of the National Health Service
Hansard
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
Winston Churchill, 5 March 1946
Speech in Fulton, Missouri
You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart I say and let us have done with you. In the name of God go!
Leo Amery, 9 April 1940
To Neville Chamberlain in a debate on the German invasion of Norway.
Hosue of Commons
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 4 March 1933
First inaugural address.
A country fit for heroes to live in.
David Lloyd George, 24 November 1918
What he wanted for the returning British troops at the end of the war.
Nancy Astor: Winston, if I were married to you I'd put poison in your coffee.
Winston Churchill: Nancy, if you were my wife, I'd drink it.
Winston Churchill, 1912
Government of the people, by the people, for the people.
Abraham Lincoln, 19 November 1863
Gettysburg Address
if it's a boy I'll call him John. if it's a girl I'll call her Mary. But if, as I suspect, it's only a bag of wind, I'll call it F E Smith.
To F E Smith after he commented on the size of Stewart's stomach and asked "What's it to be, a boy or girl?"
When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit.
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
Politics is the art of the possible.
There's a lot of bleeding idiots in t'country and they deserve some representation.
