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Favourite politician (across the ages) - Mahatma Gandhi
Favourite political song - Running the World - Jarvis Cocker
Favourite political book - A long walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela
Favourite capital city - London
Favourite political quote - "They misunderestimated me." - George Bush
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Originally posted by Lockhouse View PostI thought I'd be the only one. Some of the things he said and wrote still resonate today - not least parts of the Declaration of Independence.
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Cicero
Homebreakers - The Style Council
The second Philippic - Cicero
Rome
An unjust peace is better than a just war - Cicero (TB take note!)
But only cos that's what I'm reading at the moment.
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Originally posted by Lockhouse View PostI thought I'd be the only one. Some of the things he said and wrote still resonate today - not least parts of the Declaration of Independence.
While being a slave owner and bonking his female slaves?
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Favourite politician - Aneurin Bevan
Favourite political song - Won't get fooled again - The Who.
Favourite political book - Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand.
Favourite capital city - Paris ( favorite city is Venice but thats not a capital )
Favourite political quote - “Politicians are like nappies. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.” - Anonymous [/QUOTE]
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Favourite politician (across the ages) - Tony Blair
Favourite political song - pass
Favourite political book - Rights of Man
Favourite capital city - Bangkok
Favourite political quote - Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
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Favourite politician - Thomas Jefferson
Favourite political song - Beethoven's Fifth
Favourite political book - 1984
Favourite capital city - Winchester (well it was capital of England until around 1066)
Favourite political quote - "The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object." - Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson
It’s over!
1984
Lisbon
"The trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher
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Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post1. Boris Johnson
2. Part of the Union - Strawbs
3. Animal Farm - George Orwell
4. Budapest
5. "A modest little person with much to be modest about" Churchill on Clement Attlee
Good call on animal farm
mine:
1. Bill Clinton
2. Wake up - RATM
3. Vive la revolution - mark steel
4. Paris (London really, but that's cheating)
5. *The problem with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur - George w bush
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Eamon de Valera (especially as played by Alan Rickman in the film "Michael Collins")
The Internationale
The Republic
Ashgabat
"Don't judge me for my morals. Judge me for my buildings!" (Jabez Balfour, MP and property developer after being convicted of a Bernie Madoff scam)
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1. Boris Johnson
2. Part of the Union - Strawbs
3. Animal Farm - George Orwell
4. Budapest
5. "A modest little person with much to be modest about" Churchill on Clement Attlee
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