27 Quotes filtered by Pick of the bunch
Grove Farm, Drakelow, Burton-on-Trent.
Ivan Lawrence
As local Mp he had been invited to a local rugyb club dinner . After listeneing to speech after speech during which the audience became increasingly rowdy has was then invited to give a short address... He did and walked out.
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Repartee
Dennis Skinner: How many civil servants are a) men and b) women?
Tim Renton: All of them
Tim Renton 06/02/1992
Answer to a parliamentary question.
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Repartee, Men & Chauvenism
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.
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Boasting
Visitor: Ah, Bottomley, sewing?
Bottomley: No, reaping.
Horatio Bottomley
As he was sewing mailbags in prison for fraud.
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Repartee, Prison
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 09/04/1940
To Neville Chamberlain in a debate on the German invasion of Norway.
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, World War II
There's a lot of bleeding idiots in t'country and they deserve some representation.
Bill Stones
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Politics is...
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
Margot Asquith
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Great American Quotes
Shot any dogs lately?
Cyril Smith 01/1976
To Jeremy Thorpe
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Insulting Liberals
It does not mean of course that the pound here in Britain in your pcoket has been devalued.
Harold Wilson 19/11/1967
On the 1967 devakuation of the Pound.
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Foot in Mouth
There are some of us, Mr Chairman, who will fight, fight and fight again to save the Party we love.
Hugh Gaitskell 03/10/1960
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Labour Party
I intend to march my troops towards the sound of gunfire.
Jo Grimond 15/09/1963
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Liberal Party
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 05/07/1948
On the inuaguration of the National Health Service
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Insulting Conservatives, Conservative Party
I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole.
Benjamin Disraeli 1868
On becoming Prime Minister
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Prime Minister (Office of)
The lamps are going out all over Europe.
Edward Grey 03/08/1914
On the eve of World War I
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, World War I
A country fit for heroes to live in.
David Lloyd George 24/11/1918
What he wanted for the returning British troops at the end of the war.
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever
Like the Roman I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood.
Enoch Powell 20/04/1968
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Racism
A week is a long time in politics.
Harold Wilson 1964
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Politics is...
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
Winston Churchill 05/03/1946
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Cold War
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 03/02/1960
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, South Africa, Nationalism
