How to sound like a politician

While Today in Parliament isn't required listening, unless you are really, really keen, and you would expect from a group of professionals who rely on their speeches to convey their message and, ultimately, to secure their jobs, they come up with some pretty snappy bites.

Nelson Mandela

   'I stand here before you today not as aprophet but as a humble servant of you, people.' (11 February 1990)

John F. Kennedy



   'Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.' (20 January 1961)

Margaret Thatcher

   'To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catcphrase, the U turn, I have only one thing to say: you turn if you want to. The ladies not for turning!'

Winston Churchill

   'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owned by so many to so few.'

Mahatma Gandhi

   'Non-Violence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Ronald Reagan

   'It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?'