22 Quotes filtered by foot in mouth
It's too bad the French don't have a word for entrepreneur.
George W Bush 26/05/2002
To one of his aides on his first-ever visit to France
Category: Quote of the Day, Foot in Mouth, France
You're not talking about something down at the DIY store.
Derry Irvine
On his ?‡€£300 a roll wallpaper.
Category: Foot in Mouth
This is a great day for France.
Richard Nixon
At de Gaulle's funeral.
Category: Foot in Mouth, France
Other countries have far greater problems than we have.
Edward Heath 19/11/1973
Category: Foot in Mouth
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
If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.
George W Bush
Category: Foot in Mouth, Election Campaigning
We expect the Salvadorean officials to work towards the extremination of human rights.
Dan Quayle
Category: Foot in Mouth, Human Rights
Will he review the arrangements for preventing drowning accidents?
John Stonehouse 07/05/1975
Question in the House of Commons
Category: Foot in Mouth
People can clean their teeth in the dark.
Patrick Jenkin 16/01/1974
On his solution to the energy crisis
Category: Foot in Mouth
Would it be right to understand that if there is a statement to be made it will be made by Mr Heath, and if there is no statement to be made it will be made by Mr Butler?
Iain Macleod
Category: Foot in Mouth
It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny, and by confirming and denying you have announced before you have decided.
Tony Benn 1966
Category: Foot in Mouth
She has indicated to [Mr Kinnock] that she would not be able to be here because she has made herself available to Mr Gorbachev.
John Wakeham
Making an unintended double entendre while explaining to the House of Commons why Mrs Thatcher could attend Prime Minister's Questions
Category: Double Entendres, Foot in Mouth
I am always on the job.
Margaret Thatcher 1984
Interview on Aspel & Co, explaining that she lived above the shop at Downing Street
Category: Sex, Foot in Mouth
Will this thing jerk me off?
Margaret Thatcher 01/1983
While firing a field gun during a visit to the Falkland Islands
Category: Falklands War, Double Entendres, Foot in Mouth
I should never have said that.
Neville Chamberlain 03/1938
Recently disclosed aside by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to his secretaries, immediately after declaring "peace in our time" on his return from Munich in 1938.
Category: Foot in Mouth
You are not talking about something down at the DIY store that might collapse after a year or two.
Derry Irvine 1998
On his infamous wallpaper at ?‡€?‡€£300 a roll
Category: Foot in Mouth
The British won't fight.
General Leopoldo Galtieri 10/04/1982
After he invaded the Falklands
Category: Falklands War, Foot in Mouth
The report speaks for itself. It's a very good report. It's a very long report. I haven't read the report.
Keith Vaz 2001
On the Hammond Report on Foot & Mouth
Category: Foot in Mouth
