Best one-liners in business or politics

walshb · 08-10-2009 04:24PM

Aidric wrote: »

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

Brilliant, yet so disturbing. This is what you expect to hear from Crime Lords

K-9 · 08-10-2009 04:29PM

General Zod wrote: »

That was an excellent burn.

It was. This one was probably the best self inflicted Burn:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5DZBFbMdjI

matrixroyal · 08-10-2009 05:24PM

During election debate :
Pat Rabbitte to Michael McDowell about his media obsession called him a "menopausal Paris Hilton", Michael Mcdowell then looked at Pat, Gerry Adams and Trevor Sargeant and said he was looking at "the left, the hard left and the left overs ".

CJ
"I have done the State some service, and they know't. No more of that."

Charlie was talking, in the privacy of this office, to his Press Secretary, Frank Dunlop

Charlie-“Where the **** were you yesterday?”
Dunlop- “Yesterday...Sunday...I was at home in the bosom of my family”
Charlie- “We’re making some progress.....the ****er knows yesterday was Sunday”

slipss · 08-10-2009 05:32PM

"Of course I inhaled, that's the idea" - Obama when asked if he had ever smoked cannabis and if he inhaled.

genericguy · 08-10-2009 06:15PM

martin mc guinness: "we'll have to consult with the army council on this"

our very own fat cnut cowen: "yeah, well there's a mirror in the toilet if you want to go in there and talk to them."

absolute gold.

MrMatisse · 08-10-2009 06:25PM

matrixroyal wrote: »

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"

That was Deng Xiaoping not Mao tse tung

Jeez, everyone knows that.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 08-10-2009 06:25PM

Agricola wrote: »

"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

That was George Bush Snr.

banquo · 08-10-2009 06:27PM

You will withdraw that statement.

genericguy · 08-10-2009 06:31PM

banquo wrote: »

You will withdraw that statement.

i will not withdraw it.

RHJ · 08-10-2009 06:31PM

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pebbles21 · 08-10-2009 06:38PM

Thats not a real gun ! John Lennon 1980

wilson10 · 08-10-2009 06:39PM

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Winston Churchill

wilson10 · 08-10-2009 06:46PM

Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just glad to see me.

Mae West

junkyard · 08-10-2009 06:49PM

The Mayor of Hiroshima, "What the f*ck was............."
A vasectomy means never having to say your sorry.
"I shook hands with the Pope once and my whole right side sobered up" Dean Martin.

drunkmonkey · 08-10-2009 06:53PM

"I inhaled frequently, that was the point!"

Barack Obama when asked did he ever smoke Marijuana.

"I won't kick gays!"

George Bush mocks Al Gore, his opponent in the 2000 elections, for admitting to smoking cannabis, and also dismisses him as a liar.

RHJ · 08-10-2009 06:55PM

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vinylbomb · 08-10-2009 06:57PM

The Times ran an article on this a while back, some of the ones I can remember:

“A sheep in sheep’s clothing” Winston Churchill talking about Clement Attlee.

“She probably thinks Sinai is the plural of sinus” Someone (cant remember!!!) on Margaret Thatcher.

wilson10 · 08-10-2009 06:59PM

I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

Richard M Nixon

wilson10 · 08-10-2009 07:02PM

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

Richard M. Nixon

MementoMori · 08-10-2009 07:05PM

Labour Chancellor Denis Healey described being attacked by Richard Howe as "like being savaged by a dead sheep".

Scrambled egg · 08-10-2009 07:09PM

*Churchill on being called a drunk.

I maybe a drunk,
but in the morning ill be sober.

And you will still be ugly missus.

SafeSurfer · 08-10-2009 07:19PM

"It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army"

Josef Stalin

"Will it be a pint or Ballyshannon?"

Brian Lenihan snr on being asked for his name after hours in a Dublin pub.

"Its a secret"

Albert Renolds replying to a BBC journalist who asked what was a fourth secret of Fatima - The revelation of which was a demand of an Irish hijacker of an Aer Lingus flight.

"Temple Bar is Ireland's West Bank"

Bertie Ahern

"Peace in our time"

Neville Chamberlain

cml387 · 08-10-2009 07:21PM

LBJ
"If you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow"

Harold Macmillan, on what could upset government plans

"Events"

m3llowship · 08-10-2009 07:34PM

Declan Ganley on Lisbon

"Best two out of three?"

El Guapo! · 08-10-2009 07:42PM

Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. :eek::eek:
---Terry Pratchett

Mac daddy · 08-10-2009 08:22PM

Brian Lenihan "We never promised jobs as a result of a Yes vote " to bad the sheeple didn't see it like that

asdasd · 08-10-2009 08:22PM

Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside pissing in. (Lynden B. Johnson, on J. Edgar Hoover)

Irish Trinity · 08-10-2009 08:28PM

" If we do not succeed we run the risk of failure." - Bush

Mark200 · 08-10-2009 08:43PM

Mac daddy wrote: »

Brian Lenihan "We never promised jobs as a result of a Yes vote " to bad the sheeple didn't see it like that

Oh will you shut the **** up about Lisbon. The Yes side won, get over it.

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

spadder · 08-10-2009 08:57PM

"I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened."-Mark Twain

Best one-liners in business or politics

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