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From Aeschylus to Tony Blair and Boris Yeltsin to Malcolm X
Antony Jay's vintage crop of over 4,000 quotations reflects every facet of political life. Examples rangé from the pivotal and momentous to the rhetorical, the sincere, the bemused, the tongue-in-cheek, and the downright rude, with memorable words from the old hands as weil as from contemporary quotable figures.
There are politicians' views on political events, quips about other politicians, thoughts on
the British monarchy, Europe, economics, warfare, and the state of society, as weil as deeper political truths. These are accompanied by discerning and incisive comments from a whole host of other figures such as A1 Capone, Peter Cook, Mahatma Gandhi, Garrison Keillor, Dorothy Parker, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Entries are presented in A-Z form with a helpful keyword index to lead you to your favourite political phrase or put-down.
DIANE ABBOTT 'Being an MP is the sort of job all working-class parents want for their...
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Fülszöveg
From Aeschylus to Tony Blair and Boris Yeltsin to Malcolm X
Antony Jay's vintage crop of over 4,000 quotations reflects every facet of political life. Examples rangé from the pivotal and momentous to the rhetorical, the sincere, the bemused, the tongue-in-cheek, and the downright rude, with memorable words from the old hands as weil as from contemporary quotable figures.
There are politicians' views on political events, quips about other politicians, thoughts on
the British monarchy, Europe, economics, warfare, and the state of society, as weil as deeper political truths. These are accompanied by discerning and incisive comments from a whole host of other figures such as A1 Capone, Peter Cook, Mahatma Gandhi, Garrison Keillor, Dorothy Parker, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Entries are presented in A-Z form with a helpful keyword index to lead you to your favourite political phrase or put-down.
DIANE ABBOTT 'Being an MP is the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children—clean, indoors and no heavy-lifting'.
RONALD REAGAN 'Politics is just like showbusiness, you have a hell of an opening, coast for a while and then have a hell of a close'.
CHARLES DE GAULLE 'How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?'
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'The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be'.
MATTHEW PARRIS of LADY THATCHER in the House of Lords 'A big cat detained briefly in a poodle parlour, sharpening her claws on the velvet'.
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'I may lose many things including my temper, but I do not lose my nerve'.
GEORGE WASHINGTON 'Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder*.
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