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
7.14% (2 of 28 votes)
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U.S. President
53.66% (66 of 123 votes)
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U.S. President
43.57% (630 of 1446 votes)
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World Leader
55.30% (73 of 132 votes)
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U.S. President
56.18% (50 of 89 votes)
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Advocate
52.51% (314 of 598 votes)
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World Leader
33.33% (1 of 3 votes)
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U.S. Attorney General
53.42% (39 of 73 votes)
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9
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0% (0 of 0 votes)
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World Leader
12.50% (1 of 8 votes)
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World Leader
0% (0 of 2 votes)
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World Leader
55.46% (66 of 119 votes)
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Politician
66.67% (2 of 3 votes)
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15
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World Leader
61.43% (634 of 1032 votes)
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U.S. President
55.28% (68 of 123 votes)
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World Leader
54.47% (67 of 123 votes)
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World Leader
14.29% (1 of 7 votes)
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U.S. President
55.73% (399 of 716 votes)
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20
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Diplomat
71.43% (5 of 7 votes)
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U.S. President
53.11% (111 of 209 votes)
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World Leader
100% (2 of 2 votes)
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World Leader
55.29% (47 of 85 votes)
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U.S. President
53.88% (125 of 232 votes)
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U.S. President
60.02% (2512 of 4185 votes)
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