Best one-liners in business or politics

trad · 08-10-2009 12:57PM #1

Been thinking about the most influential one-liners as in

Margaret Thacher This Lady is not for turning

Duke of Wellington Being born in a stable does not make you a horse.

My favourite (and i'm not a fan)

Gerry Adams We havent gone away you know.

What are your favourites / influenced you most

Mr.David · 08-10-2009 01:01PM

We'll burn that bridge when we come to it

Aidric · 08-10-2009 01:04PM

"I won it on the horses" - Bertie Ahern.

LouOB · 08-10-2009 01:10PM

I heard a good one yesterday

'I dont have the data on that'
i.e. I havnt a fooken clue
or
'Can we take this issue offline' means Im not having a barney with everyone listening

gaz wac · 08-10-2009 01:14PM

Gilmore addressing O’Donoghue: “Ceann Comhairle, I think you will either have to resign or I think you will have to be removed from office.”

General Zod · 08-10-2009 01:17PM

trad wrote: »

Been thinking about the most influential one-liners as in

Duke of Wellington Being born in a stable does not make you a horse.

He never said this

My favourite (and i'm not a fan)

Gerry Adams We havent gone away you know.

He didn't say this either.

08-10-2009 01:19PM

Aidric wrote: »

"I won it on the horses" - Bertie Ahern.

"Grand so, we'll vote for you again" - Average Irish voter.

Blazer · 08-10-2009 01:20PM

You're Fired -- pretty much any boss

gustavo · 08-10-2009 01:23PM

Churchill had some great ones , too lazy to find now

trad · 08-10-2009 01:32PM

General Zod wrote: »

He never said this

He didn't say this either.

Daniel O'Connell said Wellington said it and Gerry Adams said They not We.

I stand corrected

Sam Vimes · 08-10-2009 01:35PM

gustavo wrote: »

Churchill had some great ones , too lazy to find now

ooohhh Yesh

Tabnabs · 08-10-2009 01:37PM

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman"

Yeah, right Bill!

matrixroyal · 08-10-2009 01:41PM

Senator Lloyd Bentsen to Republican vice-presidential candidate Senator Dan Quayle ( who was styling himself as a jfk type politician ) :

"Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy." (Prolonged shouts and applause.)

mikom · 08-10-2009 01:43PM

"Fuppin' hell"

Adolf Hitler upon reading his gas bill (1945)

K-9 · 08-10-2009 02:03PM

President Johnson "I want to hear the Son of a B*tch deny it!"

Defined the next 50 years of political campaigning.

kraggy · 08-10-2009 02:07PM

"You should have respect for your betters" - Martin Mansergh to Senator Eugene Regan of Fine Gael.

w123 · 08-10-2009 02:10PM

gustavo wrote: »

Churchill had some great ones , too lazy to find now

To some old dowager giving out to him for being drunk.

'...and you madam are ugly, but I will be sober in the morning.'

matrixroyal · 08-10-2009 02:54PM

mao tse tung - it's too early to tell if the French revolution has been a success or not

CJ Haughey - Who writes the editorials in the Irish Times? They sound like they were written by an old woman in a bath, with the water going cold around her fanny"

hal9000 · 08-10-2009 03:04PM

As a community we are living away beyond our means. -Charles Haughey, 9 January 1980

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup · 08-10-2009 03:10PM

'When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.' - Theodore Roosevelt

'We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.' - Aristotle

'The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.' -Muhammad Ali

WIZE · 08-10-2009 03:13PM

Whoever designed the streets must have been drunk....I think it was those Irish guys. - Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura

biko · 08-10-2009 03:15PM

Mrs Windsor can come and go as she wants.

Pompey Magnus · 08-10-2009 03:26PM

Molōn labe! (Come and take them!) - The supposed response of the Spartan King Leonidas at the battle of Thermopylae when the Persian army demanded they surrender their weapons.

Agricola · 08-10-2009 03:36PM

"For seven and a half years I've worked alongside President Reagan. We've had triumphs. Made some mistakes. We've had some sex...uh...setbacks." —George Bush, Sr

"I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli."
- George Bush Jnr

Ulysses Gaze · 08-10-2009 04:00PM

'Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.'

Ronald Reagan

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'

Ronald Reagan

On mature recollection..

Brian Lenihan snr

"Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."

George W. Bush, in parting words to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy at his final G8 Summit, punching the air and grinning widely as the two leaders looked on in shock.

"I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself."

Ronald Reagan

Euro_Kraut · 08-10-2009 04:03PM

w123 wrote: »

To some old dowager giving out to him for being drunk.

'...and you madam are ugly, but I will be sober in the morning.'

Thats Wilde, not Churchill.

admiralofthefleet · 08-10-2009 04:07PM

Aidric wrote: »

"I won it on the horses" - Bertie Ahern.

'it was for paddy the plasterer'

Dyflin wrote: »

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman"

'i just dropped my yop down her dress'

humanji · 08-10-2009 04:10PM

Euro_Kraut wrote: »

Thats Wilde, not Churchill.

It's a bit funny, but I wouldn't call it wild.

ekevosu · 08-10-2009 04:10PM

Euro_Kraut wrote: »

Thats Wilde, not Churchill.

think that was churchill allright

also:
Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if I were your wife, I'd poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.

Long Onion · 08-10-2009 04:12PM

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.”

Apparently, he said it twice

General Zod · 08-10-2009 04:12PM

matrixroyal wrote: »

Senator Lloyd Bentsen to Republican vice-presidential candidate Senator Dan Quayle ( who was styling himself as a jfk type politician ) :

"Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy." (Prolonged shouts and applause.)

That was an excellent burn.

Best one-liners in business or politics

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