Beers&Politics

Categoría: Discursos

  • Time to get back to basic. Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool

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    Madam President, as I walked through the Winter Gardens during Conference Week, I passed the bookstalls and what do I see, I see memoirs, memoirs to the left of me, memoirs to the right of me, memoirs in front of me, volley, volley and thunder. Madam President, let me say right away I’m not about…

  • Speech in Monte Carlo for Manchester Olympics

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    Mr President and Members of the IOC: We are all here today in our different capacities because we care about the Olympic Games. We know it to be the greatest sporting festival in the world. You must decide where it will be and I wish to help you make that decision. The Millennium Games will…

  • Ceremony of the Declaration of Principles

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    President Clinton, the president of the United States, your excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, This signing of the Israeli-Palestinian Declaration of Principles here today is not so easy, neither for myself as a soldier in Israels wars, nor for the people of Israel nor for the Jewish people in the Diaspora who are watching us now…

  • Speech in London

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    Mr Chairman of Governors, Mr President, Ladies and Gentlemen. In welcoming you warmly to London may I firstly refer briefly to the events of Saturday. All too many of us present today have had experience of terrorism in one country or another. The world’s terrorists have one thing in common failure. They have failed to…

  • First Inaugural Address

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    My fellow citizens: Today we celebrate the mystery of American renewal. 1 This ceremony is held in the depth of winter. But, by the words we speak and the faces we show the world, we force the spring.2 A spring reborn in the world’s oldest democracy, that brings forth the vision and courage to reinvent…

  • Aceptación del premio Nobel

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    Honorables señores del Comité Nobel de la Paz, Sus majestades los Reyes de Noruega, Excelentísima señora Primer Ministro, Excelentísimos miembros de gobiernos y del Cuerpo Diplomático, Apreciables compatriotas guatemaltecos, Señoras y señores. Me llena de emoción y orgullo la distinción que se me hace al otorgarme el Premio Nobel de la Paz 1992. Emoción personal…

  • Annus Horribilis

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    My Lord Mayor, Could I say, first, how delighted I am that the Lady Mayoress is here today. This great hall has provided me with some of the most memorable events of my life. The hospitality of the City of London is famous around the world, but nowhere is it more appreciated than among the…

  • Europe and the World Speech

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    The Danish referendum has already narrowly said “no” to the Treaty. The combination of that and of a French ‘non’ would be decisive. Without the consent of all twelve Member States the Maastricht Treaty cannot proceed. It would be dead. That is a statement of fact not conjecture. Even if, as I hope, the French…

  • The River of Time and the Imperative

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    Here we stand, before a sculpture in which the sculptor’s imagination and fantasy, with remarkable expressiveness and laconism, convey the drama of the «Cold War», the irrepressible human striving to penetrate the barriers of alienation and confrontation. It is symbolic that this artist was the granddaughter of Winston Churchill and that this sculpture should be…

  • Discurs d’investidura (1992)

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    Molt honorable senyor, senyores i senyors diputats, en compliment de l’encàrrec que em va fer el molt honorable president del Parlament i d’acord amb el que estableix la disposició transitòria cinquena del nostre Estatut, em correspon presentar davant aquest Parlament de Catalunya la meva candidatura com a president de la Generalitat i demanar la seva…