If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a… — John Major Copy Share Image
Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about… — Ed Miliband Copy Share Image
New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic… — Liam Fox Copy Share Image
Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, we don't have the option of marriage in our country. We could go to Britain or Spain or Argentina and do… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Aspects of life here civility, courtesy, coziness have always bound Britons to their country . . . They are part of the… — R. W. Apple Copy Share Image
Growing up in Britain as a rather loose Jew, the two things that didn't belong together were freedom and religious intensity. In… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I believe it is wrong to undermine public safety, and indeed public confidence in the concept of human rights, by allowing highly… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don’t vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Since the Protestant majority in Northern Ireland wants to remain a part of Great Britain, and since Ireland itself has shown little… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The older generation may see us as plucky little Britain, on the Edge of Europe. But more and more of the post-war… — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
In Britain, British history is naturally a mainstream subject. Step outside your own narrow specialism, and you can find yourself treading on… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
In Britain, the theatre has traditionally been where the public goes to think about its past and debate its future. The formation… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
The current anger at the march of turbines and pylons across the hills of Britain is not from nimbys. Government money has… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Up until I think eighth grade - when I found out in front of a roomful of people - I believed that… — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
When I first began visiting West Germany in the early 1980s, I was startled by the contrast between Birmingham, where I went… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
I get nostalgic for British negativity. There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers. When you go back to… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
“It was so difficult to dress appropriately when the seasons changed – the British weather was the nothing if not erratic. Spring… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
No leader did more for his country than Winston Churchill. Brave, magnanimous, traditional, he was like a king-general from Britain's heroic past.… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people lived hand… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
What worries me is that, because of the amount of media coverage of food, Britain seems to have become a foodie nation… — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
It would be easy to assume that the open letter is a symptom of the Internet age. Such is not the case.… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I left Britain in the mid-1990s when TV was going down the cundy - another good Dundee word - because I wanted… — Charlie Cox Copy Share Image
Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all.… — Frank Dobson Copy Share Image
In Britain, eponymous lifestyle branding as we know it started in the late 1960s, with two fascinating families - the Conrans and… — Peter York Copy Share Image
One of the most heartening phenomena in today's Britain is the great diversity of the modern nerd - the nerd is out… — Will Self Copy Share Image
We oppress people, we make our victims small wherever they are, whether they are a black girl in a rural community in,… — Roma Tearne Copy Share Image
Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally… — Ann Veneman Copy Share Image
Britain has always been a good citizen in the world. We rightly provide a safe haven for people fleeing political persecution by… — Chris Grayling Copy Share Image
Britain, along with the U.S.A., is war weary, and after the travesty of Iraq and Afghanistan, has grave misgivings in any future… — Paul Conroy Copy Share Image
When I warned them [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
As parents, can we counter the effect of television violence? One worrying feature in Britain is that so many TV sets are… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Britain, the first industrial nation, had offered the world a remarkable public experiment in liberal, capitalist democracy whose success was premised upon… — Kenneth O. Morgan Copy Share Image
When I am back in old Blighty, I am surrounded by the old and familiar concerns: New Labour, Europe, the Middle East… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,'… — Laura Fraser Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image