"Conference Diary", The Independent, 5 October 2005, p. 7.
On The 2005 Conservative Leadership Contest.
2000s, 2005
“Tell David Cameron that if he screws up my beloved NHS I'll come back and bloody haunt him.”
Claire Rayner (1931–2010) British writer
Deathbed statement. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8059107/Agony-aunt-Claire-Rayners-deathbed-warning-to-haunt-Cameron-over-NHS.html
Nigel Farage (1964) British politician and former commodity broker
Speaking on BBC Question Time in Lincoln https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTDByiSRerk, 17 January 2013. <br class="br">2013
“I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.”
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
“I'm interested in politics, but I'm out of politics.”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2010s, 2011, Speech at the Gerald R. Ford Foundation (2011)
Context: I'm interested in politics, but I'm out of politics. You know, I like to watch it.
Robert Menzies (1894–1978) Australian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Australia
Election speech, Canterbury, Victoria, 29 October, 1958 https://electionspeeches.moadoph.gov.au/speeches/1958-robert-menzies <br class="br">Second Term as Prime Minister (1949-1966)
Michelle Obama (1964) lawyer, writer, wife of Barack Obama and former First Lady of the United States
2010s, 2016 Democratic National Convention (2016)
“In the race of life, always back self-interest; at least you know it's trying.”
Fickle fate: Labor keeping an eye out for goddess Fortuna http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/fickle-fate-labor-keeping-an-eye-out-for-goddess-fortuna-20130609-2ny82.html, Sydney Morning Herald, 10 June 2013
Joseph Gurney Cannon (1836–1926) American politician
Maxim quoted in a tribute to Cannon on his retirement, reported in The Sun, Baltimore, Maryland (March 4, 1923); Congressional Record (March 4, 1923), vol. 64, p. 5714.
