
Edmund Siegfried Valtman
Arabian nights
Estonian, 1914–2005

Arabian nights

'OK, I'm ready and willing to carry this out'

By government decree every member of the commune is entitled to a private lot

The hour has come — let it not be missed

'Don't look now, but I'm afraid somebody is following us'

'This hurts me more than it hurts you!'

He's driving me nuts – I'm on the verge of blowing my top

Agnew

'Don't start a fight. I love you and I want to settle this thing peacefully'

Nixon

Mao Zedong

Viewing with concern

'We want the Olympics to be a pure sporting event — not an opportunity for the Western news media to lionize dissidents and to play politics'

'For fifty years I worked hard to keep you occupied — You have to pay me a pension now'

Fidel Castro

'He isn't even looking this way!'

Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev

Agreed — not to use the sword

Dis-information

Rifle (gun lobby) aimed at fallen figure (gun bill)

The iceman cometh

My last employment — Vietnam

'But don't you see, If the Democratic Party is to stay young and vigorous we just had to drop the abortion plank'

Gorbachev beholds a shattered hammer and sickle

Stick 'em up!

What you need, man, is a revolution like mine

'I can't believe my eyes'

I want to make it perfectly clear that national defense requires 18-cent oil

Better relations through trade

The old man and the sea

Chinese dragon breathing fire on Soviet bear

Getting it out of his system

Inflation

The man who came to dinner.

Here we go again

Samuel Beckett

The flights at night

Bernard Shaw

The new religion

'Don't put up any resistance! Just keep in step'

Idi Amin