Britain Quotes · Page 16

In the Britain of 2019, around a third of a million of our fellow citizens are homeless.

— David Olusoga

Just as I believe that Britain should want to remain in the EU so the EU should want us to stay.

— David Cameron

Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

— Dan Aykroyd

In three weeks Britain will have her neck wrung like a chicken.

— Maxime Weygand

Britain is perceived as a laughing stock and a mess. It's a very scary and divided place.

— Russell Howard

Britain must govern Britain and nothing less will do.

— Ann Widdecombe

I'll stay until I'm tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it.

— Margaret Thatcher

Little Britain' happened and it was so deliciously uncool.

— Harry Enfield

Is it not obvious that Britain, under the regime of Tony Blair, has ceased to respect the Charter of the United Nations?

— Robert Mugabe

I have the most ridiculous TV crush on Michael McIntyre. I fell in love watching him on 'Britain's Got Talent'.

— Geri Halliwell

And one of the challenges, of course, is to convince people that Muslims would like to be free, that there's other people…

— George W. Bush

I do not believe that as a country we are completely ill-prepared for no-deal Brexit. It is not the optimal solution it…

— Chris Grayling

In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

— Buchi Emecheta

If you don't speak English, then there is no way you can take full advantage of the opportunities that modern Britain has…

— Sajid Javid

Radio is very popular [in Britain], but it doesn't connect us in the same way. It seems to have this community function.

— John Gimlette

I love Britain. I'm an Irish citizen, but I was born in Canada, and I'm a British comedian, really. My entire career…

— Katherine Ryan

If Israel falls to the terrorists, the entire free world will tremble. To forsake Israel now would be tantamount to forsaking Great…

— Tom DeLay

The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we…

— Zac Goldsmith

I think that the people of Great Britain have had enough of experts with organisations from acronyms saying - from organisations with…

— Michael Gove

The '60s in London obviously brought about the explosion of music, the Beatles especially, and then the Rolling Stones and other forms…

— Charlotte Rampling

We have to see that we're a part of each other, and we have to take care of each other. The reason…

— Michael Moore

I also think that there is a huge failure in the American education system to educate Americans about where we, our system,…

— Michael Scheuer

Bowie's death is a very emotional thing. My generation of working-class Britain, it feels like we lost our spiritual leader, our guru.…

— Irvine Welsh

I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all…

— N. T. Wright

I pay tribute to John Major's achievement in persuading the other 11 Community Heads of Government that they could move ahead to…

— Margaret Thatcher

“It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The test of a progressive policy is not private but public, not just rising income and consumption for individuals, but widening the…

— Eric Hobsbawm

“I regard anti-Semitism as ineradicable and as one element of the toxin with which religion has infected us. Perhaps partly for this…

— Christopher Hitchens

Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play…

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

“Over the years, the British had strategically pitted the Muslims against the Hindus, supporting the All India Muslim League and encouraging the…

— Prem Kishore

The President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect his authority would be…

— Alexander Hamilton

In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.

— Linda Colley

When will Labour learn that you cannot build Jerusalem in Brussels.

— Margaret Thatcher

Britain is home to world class creative industries and talents.

— Luciana Berger

I don't think Brexit is going to help people in Britain.

— Angus Deaton

Margaret Thatcher was Britain's most controversial modern politician.

— Kwasi Kwarteng

Our party: New Labour. Our mission: new Britain. New Labour new Britain.

— Tony Blair

Everyone goes on holiday in Britain. Even Hell's Angels.

— Adam Curtis

“Britain is not a free country. In this special investigation, Rapid Eye tells you why.”

— Simon Dwyer