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""Bersih, Cekap dan Amanah" (Clean, Efficient and Trustworthy) Former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad's popular repeating catchphrase."
""Aš neatsistatydinsiu!" ("I will not resign!") - the standard phrase of President Rolandas Paksas, constantly repeated both before and after his impeachment"
"Šikau ir tapšnojau" (approx. "I took a dump and patted it with my hand") – uttered by President Rolandas Paksas during private conversation on phone. It was intercepted and revealed to the public by the authorities during corruption investigation. The phrase should be understood as: "I couldn't care less"
""Ho troppa stima per l'intelligenza degli italiani per credere che ci possono essere in giro tanti coglioni che votano per il proprio disinteresse" ("I esteem too much the intelligence of the Italians to believe that there can be so many assholes around, voting against their own interest") - said by Silvio Berlusconi"
""Riconosco i miei limiti ma non vivo in un mondo di giganti" ("I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.")- said by Giulio Andreotti"
""Il potere logora chi non ce l'ha" ("Power tires only those who do not have it")- attributed to Giulio Andreotti"
""Capra ignorante!!" ("You ignorant goat!") - said by Vittorio Sgarbi"
""Mi consenta" ("Allow me") - said by Silvio Berlusconi"
""אני ראש ממשלה לא פופולרי" ("I'm not a very popular Prime Minister") - said by Prime minister Ehud Olmert following reports that his approval rate is plummeting."
""מייד'לע, ראית פעם גבר סורג גרביים? אז אישה לא יכולה להיות טייסת קרב" ("Meidele (Yiddish for "honey"), have you ever seen a man darning socks? So therefore a woman cannot be a combat pilot") - said by former President and former Air Force commandant Ezer Weizman in a phone conversation with Alice Miller, a soldier who successfully petitioned the High Court to force the Israeli Air Force to open its pilots' course to women in 1994."
""?אני לוזר" ("Am I a loser?") - question asked by Shimon Peres in a speech in a Labour Party meeting in 1997, after he lost his 6th election in a row. The crowd shouted "Yes!"."
""הם מ-פ-ח-ד-י-ם" ("They are s-c-a-r-e-d") - Used several times by Benjamin Netanyahu to ridicule his Labour opponents."
""יתנו, יקבלו. לא יתנו, לא יקבלו" ("If they (the palestinians) will give, they will get. If they won't give, they won't get") - used during the 1996 election campaign by Benjamin Netanyahu, at the peak of the Peace Process started after the Oslo accords."
""הם לא נחמדים" ("They are not so nice") - said by Prime Minister Golda Meir regarding the Israeli Black Panthers protest movement."
""יש גרמניה אחרת" ("There is a new Germany") - said by Prime Minister David Ben Gurion after his historical meeting with Konrad Adenauer, the German Chancellor."
""הגידו כן לזקן" ("Say Yes to the old'man") used during an election campaign in the fifties. The old man is David Ben Gurion. In Hebrew the phrase (phonetically "hagidu ken lazaken) rhymes."
""On mature recollection..." – Brian Lenihan during the 1990 Irish presidential election"
""No problem" – Brian Lenihan"
""I am absolutely pissed off..." – Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams, 1998"
""Crap, total crap." – Taoiseach Albert Reynolds to dismiss claims that he never spoke to his coalition partner from the PDs, Des O'Malley. Dismissed as a slip of the tongue by press secretary, Sean Duignan, when initially used in an interview with the Sunday Tribune, but later revived for RTÉ and elsewhere."
""The sort of smug know-all commentator... I suppose if anything annoys me, that annoys me... I could instance a load of fuckers whose throat I'd cut, and push over the nearest cliff, but there's no percentage in that." – Former Taoiseach Charles Haughey speaking to Hot Press writer John Waters in 1984."
""I am sick of answering questions about the fucking peace process." – Taoiseach John Bruton famously upsetting a local radio reporter in Cork for which he later apologised."
""Let them, fuck it, we'll say no more." – Minister for Defence Michael Smith, while deputising for the Tánaiste one Thursday morning."
""می شود و می توانیم" – (It is possible and we can do it) – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's campaign slogan in Iranian presidential election, 2005."
""India Shining" – The BJP, 2004"
""My heart beats for India" – The Congress (I) Party, late 1980s."
""Quit India" – Mahatma Gandhi in the 1940s."
""Garibi Hatao (Abolish poverty)" – Indira Gandhi, ex prime minister of India in the 1970s."
""Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan" (Hail the soldier, hail the farmer) – Lal Bahadur Shastri, ex prime minister of India."
""We need to take India into the 21st Century" – by Rajiv Gandhi, ex prime minister of India in the 1980s"
""Yes, I am a Muslim. But first I am an Indonesian Nationalist "- Sukarno, commonly paraphrased to reinforce Indonesian nationalist-secularist and patriotism."
""I henceforth procalim Tri Kora" (Three commands, namely: tri-command: 1. Defeat the formation of the puppet state of Papua of Dutch colonial make., 2. Unfurl the Honoured Red and White Flag in West Irian, Indonesian native land., 3. Be ready for general mobilisation to defend the independence and unity of Country and Nation.) Sukarno in his United Nations address and a commonly paraphrased slogan when addressing nationalist issues."
""Indonesia ialah bangsa yang asal di Madagaskar sampai Filipina"- "Indonesian is a nation that stretches from Madagascar to the Philippines"- Sukarno."
""Sang Merah Putih sampai Medan ke Merauke" The sacred Red & White [flag] flies from Medan (Sumatra) to Merauke (Papua)- Sukarno."
""Marhaeni" and "Marhaenisme"- the Indonesian everyman and enrichment via traditional economics as advocated by Sukarno"
""Ganyang Malaysia": Destroy Malaysia [literally: gobble it down raw as per a freshly killed animal] popular anti-neo-colonial slogan of Sukarno, still remaining very popular policy with the Indonesian people to absorb the British created state of Malaysia, esepcially in times of Malaysian-Indonesian conflicts."
""Merdeka, Merdeka, Merdeka" (Freedom, Freedom, Freedom) Megawati Sukarnoputri, paraphrasing her famous father, Sukarno."
""Semua bisa diatur." (Everything can be handled.) Former vice-president Adam Malik's popular catchphrase."
""Lebih Cepat Lebih Baik" (The Faster The Better) Then-vice president Jusuf Kalla's slogan during his unsuccessful 2009 presidential run, poking fun at Yudhoyono's criticised indecisiveness."
""Lanjutkan!" (Continue!) Bambang Yudhoyono's reelection slogan during his campaign in 2009."
""Bersama kita bisa." (Together we can.) Slogan of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono during 2004 presidential election."
""Gitu aja kok repot?" (Why take so much trouble?) Former president Abdurrahman Wahid's popular repeating catchphrase."
""Sokan voltunk, de mégsem voltunk elegen." (There were many of us but not enough of us.) Viktor Orbán, former center-of-right prime minister, Fidesz party leader about a lost election."
""A békát sem kérdezik meg, amikor lecsapolják a mocsarat. ("Frogs are not asked for opinion when you want to drain a marshland.") János Kóka, the former leader of Alliance of Free Democrats relating to substantial changes he wanted to introduce in policies for higher education and research."
""Nem hazudtam, de nem bontottam ki az igazság minden részletét." (I didn't lie. I only didn't elaborate on every detail of the truth.) Ferenc Gyurcsány, former prime minister and Socialist leader in an interview."
""Elkúrtuk, nem kicsit, nagyon." (We screwed it, not a little but a lot.) Ferenc Gyurcsány, former prime minister and Socialist leader, addressing his party members and MPs in a secret speech which was leaked and it caused a very serious political scandal and riots in the streets."
""Monnyonle!" (Resign! - with deliberately incorrect spelling and pronunciation) József Torgyán, a former political figure used this phrase very often. The catchphrase became a chanting slogan in demonstrations."
"Try our breast - lawmaker-elect Gary Chan's comment upon declared elected in the early morning of 8th September 2008. The phrase he intended to say was 'try our best'. The phrase has since been used as a derogatory way to describe people's problem with proper pronunciations."
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