With Respect, Mr. President

On 18 October 1984 the vice president of the Bundestag, Richard Stücklen, excluded the Green member Joschka Fischer from the session. Fischer said to him: Mit Verlaub, Herr Präsident, Sie sind ein Arschloch! With respect, Mr. President, you are an asshole. Stücklen excluded him for two sitting days. Even as an insult, it keeps every element of formal address: the formula of respect, the title and Sie.

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