Sunday, September 13, 2009

[spot the world leader] who said what


Who is the leader in each case?

1. Commenting on a band in the 2006 summer issue of New Woman magazine, this leader said, "The Arctic Monkeys really wake you up in the morning."

2. On January 12th, 2009, this gallant leader made a speech: "I'm telling you there's an enemy that would like to attack our country, our countrymen, again. There just is. That's the reality of the world. And I wish him all the very best." [I changed the name of the country for the word "country".]

3. On being asked, the PM said: "I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well."

4. Showing a fine grasp of geography, this leader said: “The fifth province is not anywhere here or there, north or south, east or west. It is a place within each of us. It is that place that is open to the other, that swinging door which allows us to venture out and others to venture in.”

5. "These are our people. The workers, the strivers, the builders. These are our people. The builders of our world, struggling, fighting, bleeding, dying. On the streets of our cities and on the far-flung battlefields. Fighting against the mutilation of our hopes and dreams. Who are they?"

Answers

Gordon Brown, George W. Bush, Angela Merkel, Mary Robinson, Big Brother

2 comments:

  1. As WKPD so sagely observes "Ireland has historically been divided into five provinces, the Irish-language word for this territorial division, cĂșige (literally: "fifth part"),....". Mrs Robinson's remarks are therefore rather enigmatic.

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