Politicians' embarrassing moments - in pictures

Francoise Hollande, today. 'I didn't realise being America's new best friend meant I'd have to look like Mickey Mouse' Photograph: Guardian

Al Gore, at the opening of a centre for homeless children in 2003: 'I tell you, the whole fucking polar ice cap is melting like now and we're all going to die' Photograph: Stephen Chernin/Getty Images

David Miliband outside Labour conference in 2008: 'You run and hide, Ed, while I count to 10. Then I'm going to come and shoot you'
Photograph: Jeremy Selwyn/Rex Features

George Bush and a turkey in 2001: 'It takes one to know one' Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

Dutch politician Geert Wilders in 2009: 'Me and Le Pen turn our noses up at foreigners' Photograph: Marcel Antonisse/AFP/Getty Images

Angela Merkel reacts at a meeting in 2012: 'I told you there was no more money' Photograph: Frabrizio Bensch/Reuters

John Kerry struggles to catch a football in 2003: 'The Syrian crisis needs a safe pair of hands' Photograph: Jim Bourg/Reuters

Silvio Berlusconi gurning in 2013: 'I think I've overdone the Botox' Photograph: Alessandra Benedetti/Corbis

John McCain in 2008: 'I've just found Tony Blair's Iraq dossier' Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images