Vergessen wir die Wiedervereinigung. Halten wir die nächsten 20 Jahre die Schnauze darüber (Autumm 1989)
“Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.”
Boris Yeltsin (1931–2007) 1st President of Russia and Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR
Comment during a visit to the United States, as quoted in The Independent [London] (12 September 1989)
1980s
Wu Den-yih (1948) Taiwanese politician
Wu Den-yih (2018) cited in: " Taiwan opposition ditches pro-China overtures ahead of poll https://www.ft.com/content/515fc4f0-51bd-11e8-b24e-cad6aa67e23e" in Financial Times, 8 May 2018.
“Let's talk about football and women. … Gerhard, why don't you start?”
Silvio Berlusconi (1936) Italian politician
At the Brussels summit, turning to the four-times-married German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, at the end of Italy's EU presidency, in December 2003, as quoted in "In quotes: Berlusconi in his own words" at BBC News (2 May 2006) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3041288.stm <br class="br">2003
“Don't let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department.”
Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937) New Zealand-born British chemist and physicist
As quoted by John Kendrew in "J.D. Bernal and the Origin of Life," BBC Radio Talk (26 July 1968), and in Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists, Third Edition http://books.google.com/books?id=vqTNfnKJVPAC&lpg=PA663&dq=rutherford%20%22shell%20at%20a%20piece%20of%20tissue%22&pg=PA662#v=onepage&q=rutherford%20%22shell%20at%20a%20piece%20of%20tissue%22&f=false by John Daintith, p. 662
“Let me tell you what I just heard. Talk, talk, talk, I. Talk, talk, talk, I. Well, what about me?”
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: The Darkest Seduction
Gracie Allen (1902–1964) American actress and comedienne
Source: How to Become President (1940), Ch. 1 : Government jobs pay big money
Context: Who am I to talk? That’s a fair question, and one which deserves a better answer than I can give you. … Come to think of it, who are you? Whoever you are, I sympathize with you. I sympathize with everybody; that’s what I get for being a candidate myself. Let them call us nonentities. Who cares? A nonenitiy can be just as famous as anybody else if enough people know about him.
But let’s leave personalities out of this and just talk about me.
“let me forget about today until tomorrow”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Manmohan Singh (1932) 13th Prime Minister of India
Comparing Mumbai and Shanghai, as quoted in "Mumbai struggles to catch up with Shanghai" http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/GC16Df02.html, Asia Times (16 March 2005) <br class="br">2001-2005
Jay Leno (1950) American comedian, actor, writer, producer, voice actor and television host
Monologue, 7 October, 2008
The Tonight Show
