""Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly or even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt." Pierre Trudeau on the relationship between Canada and the United States"

""Let us be English or let us be French . . . and above all let us be Canadians." John A. Macdonald"

""Evil reptilian kitten-eater from another planet", attributed to the campaign of Ernie Eves in reference to Dalton McGuinty."

""We shall be Canadians first, foremost, and always, and our policies will be decided in Canada and not dictated by any other country." John G. Diefenbaker"

""Brasil Acima de Tudo e Deus Acima de Todos"! ("Brazil Above Everything and God Above Everyone"!) - ex-President Jair Messias Bolsonaro's political motto."

""Meus amigos e minhas amigas! Estou absolutamente convencido de que nunca antes na história deste país..." ("My friends! I am absolutely convinced that never before in the history of this country...") – said by Lula whenever he praises his own government."

""Vagabundo! Vagabundo! Respeite o doente!" ("[You] Bum! [You] Bum! Respect sick [people]!") – said by Gilberto Kassab while throwing a protester out of a public hospital."

""Bebo-o porque é líquido. Se fosse sólido, comê-lo-ia" ("I drink it because it's liquid. If it were solid, I would eat it.") – said by Jânio Quadros when asked by a reporter why he used to drink. Quadros' use of embedded, implicit nouns ("-o" and "-lo-") make the phrase overly formal for modern political speech."

""Relaxa e goza!" ("Relax and enjoy!") – said by Marta Suplicy at the peak of the 2006–2007 Brazilian aviation crisis, taken from an older, longer non-political popular saying, "Se a curra é inevitável, relaxa e goza" ("If the rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy"). The word "goza" comes from the verb "gozar" which, in formal Portuguese, means "to enjoy"; in colloquial Brazilian Portuguese, it may also mean "make fun of" or "to have an orgasm" (equalling to sexual verb "to cum"), the latter being somewhat impolite."

""Estuprem, mas não matem" ("Rape, but don´t kill.") Said by Paulo Maluf during his political campaign for mayor in the 80's."

""E se o Pitta não for um bom prefeito, nunca mais vote em mim". ("If Pitta can't be a good mayor, you should never vote for me again".) – said by Paulo Maluf in the campaign for the 1996 São Paulo city elections, where he supported Celso Pitta. Pitta was later involved in corruption scandals and served time in prison."

""Só morto sairei do Catete"! ("Only dead I'll leave the Catete [Palace]!") - said by ex-president Getúlio Dornelles Vargas when he was being pressed by opposition parties to leave presidence."

""Quid ..." – (what about ...) – Jean-Luc Dehaene - 2007"

""Trop is te veel en te veel is trop" – (Too much is too much) – Paul Vanden Boeynants"

""Il y a un parfum de crise" - (Crisis hangs in the air) - Francis Delpérée - 2007"

""La Belgique de papa" - (Daddy’s Belgium) - Gaston Eyskens - 1970"

""Il n' y a pas de Belges" – (There are no Belgians) – Jules Destrée – 1912"

""Wie gelooft die mensen nog?" - (Who is still believing those people?) - Yves Leterme"

""Sire, geef mij honderd dagen" – (Sire, give me 100 days) – Jean-Luc Dehaene – 1988"

""Vijf minuten politieke moed" – ("Five minutes of political courage") – Yves Leterme"

""Je moet de problemen alleen oplossen als ze zich stellen" – ("You only have to solve problems when they present themselves") – Jean-Luc Dehaene"

""De grondwet is geen vodje papier." – (The constitution is not some silly piece of paper.) – Leo Tindemans – 1978"

""Nagorik Shakti" (Citizen Power)- Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Laureate and Managing Director of Grameen Bank in 2007"

"Priyo Bhai O Boner Ra (Dear brothers and sisters)- Widely used by politicians and activists whilst addressing audiences"

""Jago Bangladesh" (Wake Up Bangladesh)- Moeen U Ahmed, former Chief of Army Staff, Bangladesh Army in 2007"

""Shadinota Birodhi Shokti" (Anti-liberation forces)- Used to describe the political parties/Pakistan Army and intelligence services/Islamic extremist and militant groups which opposed the independence of Bangladesh in 1971."

""Desh Bachao! Manush Bachao!" (Save the country! Save the people!)- Khaleda Zia, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh and Chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party"

""Joodho Oparadhider Bichar Chai" (Try the war criminals)- War Crimes Trial Movement"

""Digital Bangladesh" - Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh and President of Awami League"

""Rashtro Bhasha Bangla Bhasha" (State Language is Bangla Language)- Bengali Language Movement, 1952"

""Es reicht!" ("It's over!") said by the then Vice Chancellor Wilhelm Molterer of the Austrian People's Party in 2008 pronouncing the end of the grand coalition with the Social Democratic Party of Austria."

""Ich weiß, das klingt alles sehr kompliziert...", usually rendered as "Es ist alles sehr kompliziert..." ("I know, this all sounds complicated...", "Everything is very complicated...") said by Federal Chancellor Fred Sinowatz; the phrase is used ironically to hide the fact that one is not able to elaborate on a subject or may even be clueless about it."

""Ohne die Partei bin ich nichts" ("Without the Party I am nothing") said by Federal Chancellor Fred Sinowatz of the then Austrian Socialist Party"

""Lernen Sie Geschichte, Herr Reporter!" ("Study History, Mr. Reporter") said by then Chancellor Bruno Kreisky to TV journalist Ulricht Brunner, who had questioned Kreisky's comparing the actions of political opponents to fascism in the 30s."

""Without throwing the fair go out the back door" also used by Kevin Rudd during the 2007 election campaign."

""Working families." Used by Kevin Rudd during the 2007 election campaign."

""Keep the bastards honest" – Don Chipp, leader of the Australian Democrats"

""I call it feeding the chooks" Said by Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen"

""Don't you worry about that" Said by Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen"

""Ease the squeeze" Said by Mark Latham"

""We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come." Said by John Howard in relation to border protection."

""if this government cannot get the adjustment...and a sensible economic policy then Australia is basically done for. We will just end up being a third rate economy...a banana republic." Said by Paul Keating in an interview to John Laws on 14 May 1986."

""Life wasn't meant to be easy." Attributed to Malcolm Fraser, Prime Minister of Australia from November 1975 until March 1983 (but is in fact a quotation from 'Back to Methuselah' by George Bernard Shaw)."

""Please explain." Said by Pauline Hanson, founder of the anti-immigration One Nation Party, on being asked in October 1996 on the television show 60 Minutes if she was xenophobic."

""This is the recession that Australia had to have." Said by national Treasurer Paul Keating in 1990 regarding the late 1980s recession."

""Well may we say 'God Save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General." Said by dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam on 11 November 1975 after he had been sacked by Governor-General Sir John Kerr."

""The light on the hill." Said in a 1949 speech by Ben Chifley, referring to the objective of the Australian Labor Party: "not as putting an extra sixpence into somebody's pocket, or making somebody Prime Minister or Premier, but as a movement bringing something better to the people, better standards of living, greater happiness to the mass of the people. We have a great objective - the light on the hill"."

""The forgotten people." Said in a 1942 speech by Robert Menzies, referring to the middle class, defined as lying between "the rich and powerful: those who control great funds and enterprises, and are as a rule able to protect themselves" and "the mass of unskilled people, almost invariably well-organised, and with their wages and conditions safeguarded by popular law"."

"Stolen Generations --"

""For the first time, we have a nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation." Said by Sir Edmund Barton, first Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia, in the 1890s."