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Antony Jay (Editor)


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0198610610 978-0198610618 April 2, 2007 3
This revised new edition provides 5,000 quotations, covering the people, events, and ideas of some 2,500 years of politics: the inspiring speeches and the disastrous gaffes. Antony Jay has selected the best sayings of and about politicians both past and present, ranging from Karl Marx to George W. Bush and "Boss" Tweed to Condoleeza Rice, and touching on subjects as diverse as warfare, nationalism, honesty, and the ever-sensitive issue of taxation.

Newspaper headlines, slogans, and other special categories are grouped together for easier access, and an extensive index helps you find out who really said that half-remembered phrase. The third edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations is a blend of noted historical utterances and sound bites of up-to-the-minute events such as the British and US elections, 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.


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`Review from previous edition Excellent.' Daily Express

`There is something on every page to make you sit up with interest, chuckle, or reconsider what you thought you knew.' Mail on Sunday

`This is not merely an excellent work, but it fills a serious gap' Financial Times

`Review from Previous Edition Excellent.' Daily Express

About the Author

Antony Jay has spent 50 years travelling in the realms of government and politics as a television writer and producer. The journey has included the editorship of Tonight, writing the two royal TV documentaries Royal Family and Elizabeth R, and many programmes with Sir David Frost, including the twelve interviews with Harold Wilson in A Prime Minister on Prime Ministers. He was a senior executive in BBC TV, and a member of the government's Annan Committee on the Future of Broadcasting. In the 1980s he co-wrote the hugely successful comedies Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister.

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  • Paperback: 560 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 3 edition (April 2, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0198610610
  • ISBN-13: 978-0198610618
  • Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,057,733 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
present discontents, regicide directory, labour politician
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
House of Commons, Prime Minister, The Times, British Conservative, British Labour, American Democratic, Daily Telegraph, Julius Caesar, New York Times, The English Constitution, American Republican, House of Lords, Sunday Times, Labour Party, Andrew Roberts Salisbury, Lloyd George, United States, Irish Times, Our Times, Winston Churchill, British Liberal, Essays Contributed, Conservative Party, Victorian Titan, White House
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