Australian Politician Lifts Lines from a Michael Douglas American President Speech
Australian House of Representatives leader Anthony Albanese was just busted lifting lines from the 1995 film The American President, written by Aaron Sorkin, in a speech to the National Press Club of Australia.
Here is the part of Albanese’s speech in question:
“In Australia we have serious challenges to solve and we need serious people to solve them. Unfortunately, Tony Abbott is not the least bit interested in fixing anything. He is only interested in two things: making Australians afraid of it and telling them who’s to blame for it.”
And here’s are Sorkin’s lines delivered by Michael Douglas in the film:
“We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them.
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