UK Telegraph's Top 25 Political Speeches of All Time [August 28, 2008]
* 25 Barack Obama (July 27, 2004)
* 24 Dwight Eisenhower (June 6, 1944)
* 23 Nikita Khrushchev (February 25, 1956)
* 22 Konrad Adenauer (July 12, 1952)
* 21 George W. Bush (September 20, 2001)
* 20 Kwame Nkrumah (July 10, 1953)
* 19 Bill Clinton (April 23, 1995)
* 18 Golda Meir (January 17, 1957)
* 17 Charles de Gaulle (June 18, 1940)
* 16 Gerald Ford (September 8, 1974)
* 15 Adolf Hitler (December 11, 1941)
* 14 Enoch Powell (April 20, 1968)
* 13 Mikhail Gorbachev: December 7 (1988)
* 12 Geoffrey Howe (November 13, 1990)
* 11 Vaclav Havel (January 1, 1990)
* 10 Margaret Thatcher (October 10, 1980)
* 9 Jawaharlal Nehru (August 14, 1947)
* 8 Robert Kennedy (April 4, 1968)
* 7 Harold Macmillan (February 3, 1960)
* 6 Martin Luther King (August 28, 1963)
* 5 Franklin Delano Roosevelt (March 4 1933)
* 4 Nelson Mandela May 10 (1994)
* 3 Ronald Reagan (June 12, 1987)
* 2 John F Kennedy (June 26, 1963)
* 1 Winston Churchill (August 20, 1940)
------- Missing: ---------
* Geoffrey Howe (12)
* Enoch Powell (14)
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World Leader
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U.S. President
42.17% (132 of 313 votes)
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49.39% (202 of 409 votes)
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60.25% (338 of 561 votes)
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Advocate
61.96% (101 of 163 votes)
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100% (1 of 1 votes)
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U.S. Attorney General
32.00% (96 of 300 votes)
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47.73% (42 of 88 votes)
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5.71% (2 of 35 votes)
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World Leader
69.61% (1063 of 1527 votes)
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57.50% (69 of 120 votes)
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U.S. President
32.01% (450 of 1406 votes)
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U.S. President
49.85% (164 of 329 votes)
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54.55% (6 of 11 votes)
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32.95% (57 of 173 votes)
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U.S. President
65.88% (1367 of 2075 votes)
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