The newspaper that bites

On the 11th of October 1982, four years before Álvaro Cunhal expressed, to the Communist electorship, his endorsement of Mário Soares in the 1986 presidential elections, the general secretary of PCP made the famous declaration. “If once it was said we had swallowed live frogs, I don’t know what little animals we’d have to talk about in the case of endorsing Mário Soares for the Presidency of the Republic”

Pinheiro de Azevedo's emblematic expression was used after he was held captive for 26 hours by workers, who called him a fascist. After the famous outburst, the prime-minister of the VI Provisional Government tells Costa Gomes his government had decided to start a strike 

At the end of a lunch-rally, in Viseu, Margarida Sousa Uva makes the famous comparison between her husband and a fish species. Durão Barroso's wife also declares a poem by Alexandre O' Neil, «Sigamos o cherne» ["Let's follow the wreckfish"]

Pedro Passos Coelho, on the 23rd of July, 2012, during a dinner of the parliamentary group of the Social Democratic Party, says he finds the salvation of the country more important than the results of the elections

The expression used by Mário Lino made the headlines in May, 2007, portraying the position of the former minister on the location of the new airport of Lisbon. The former minister of Public Works denied having said these words

In the aftermath of the controversy of the Vasco da Gama programme, Manuel Pinho, minister of Economy, utters the famous words about the deputy and PSD’s main candidate to the European elections on the 5th of May, 2009