Quote by Ben Pimlott

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

— Queen Elizabeth II

We are a Commonwealth that believes in moving forward, not being tied down by the mistakes of our past.

— Ralph Northam

It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.

— Cameron van der Burgh

Postcolonial critics are, I suspect, wrong when they argue that the mass of British people still mourn the loss of empire. But Britain's politicians…

— Linda Colley

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

— Robert Trout

I know the situation of the Commonwealth generally, and I know that the aim should be to make the Commonwealth much more relevant to…

— Mahathir Mohamad

“constant marking down of her performance is wildly at odds with the reality of the minority government. Despite the government’s wafer-thin margin, the parliament…

— Kerry-Anne Walsh

Well, there have been periods in the past when prime ministers of Australia and New Zealand were at each others' throats publicly and frequently.…

— Helen Clark

The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at…

— George Osborne

The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and…

— Carl Bernstein

I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of…

— Tony Abbott

It is true that Britain and its institutions have survived past crises, but often this was because those in charge, at a certain point,…

— David Olusoga