This week it's quotations - specifically by British Prime Ministers. Who said the following? Even if you don't recognise them, I hope you will find the quotes interesting and perhaps worthy of family debate - maybe at lockdown Christmas?
We have had 55 Prime Ministers but you'll be relieved to know there aren't 55 questions - although I might set myself that task one day.
The longest serving PM was Robert Walpole at 20 years, 314 days; the shortest George Canning at 119 days. Gladstone served four separate terms as PM, more than anyone else.
Q1. "Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare."
Q2. "Diplomats were invented simply to waste time."
Q3. "One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex."
Q4. "We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones."
Q5. “Mr. President, with the greatest respect, I would prefer the American eagle's neck to be on a swivel so that it could face the olive branches or the arrows, as the occasion might demand.”
Q6. "Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there."
Q7. "Thank you very much... doooo doooo doo doo, right.... good"
Q8. "We spend more on cows than the poor."
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