In an interview to RTP, on the 13th of October, 1987, Cavaco Silva talked about the phenomenon of stock markets speculation. The then Prime-Minister used a popular expression to say that there are stocks being bought which have no correspondence to their real value.
During the campaign for the 2011 Presidentials, the President of the Republic and the Belém candidate was the protagonist of a heated debate with Defensor Moura. Cavaco Silva said he was the target of a “dishonest campaign” from his adversaries.
The sentence said by Luís Filipe Menezes on the 20th of June in 2009 was controversial, but the politician defended his comparison, that he didn't consider depreciative. "He only wants all the attentions on him, regardless of the issue at hand", he said, about Pacheco Pereira.
Braga de Macedo's, former Finances minister, showed, on the 28th of September of 1992, his optimistic vision when faced with the uncertainty of the international environment. The expression, in his political and literary context, stays.
These televised words would affect a whole generation. These were the parting words of those who went to fight in the Colonial War that would remain in the collective memory of the Portuguese people for years to come.
The failure of the space mission of the Apollo 13 spacecraft is summarized in this phrase since immortalized in popular culture...but this is not exactly what was said. "Houston, we have a problem here", were the exact words of Commander James A. Lovell to the Houston Space Center in April 1970.
