Britain Quotes
700 Britain quotes by 462 unique authors
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The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted…
— Thomas Watson, Jr.
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I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am…
— Boris Johnson
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them…
— Iain Duncan Smith
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The message I take all round the world is Britain is open for business.
— William Hague
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Britain, today, educates 4.8 million primary school children in Britain. And we educate five million primary school children around the developing world, at a cost…
— Andrew Mitchell
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The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration.
— Theresa May
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If you can speak English, and you can get a place on a proper course at a proper university, you can come to study in…
— Theresa May
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One area in which we can be certain mass immigration has an effect is housing. More than one third of all new housing demand in…
— Theresa May
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In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade exchanges, transportation, factory technology and new skills needed for the…
— Lucy Powell
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We need to dig deep and give people a reason to be optimistic just as Obama is doing in America. Because in the same way…
— Lucy Powell
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Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative - that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in the modern world.
— David Miliband
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In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.
— David Miliband
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The real danger to Britain is a foreign policy that is isolationist in Europe and therefore weak in the rest of the world.
— David Miliband
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The 1970s - I was ten in 1975 - were a bad decade in all sorts of ways but the middle class had comfortable assumptions…
— David Miliband
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What is the big political issue for Britain at the moment? Without wishing to sound portentous, it is about whether we can build a social…
— David Miliband
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On a per capita basis, Britain is responsible for more of the carbon dioxide now in the atmosphere than any other nation on Earth because…
— James Hansen
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I personally think that a couple of pounds a week - maybe rising to almost £3 a week - is a reasonable price for Britain…
— Tim Yeo
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Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know their stuff when they get on a movie set.
— Jerry Weintraub
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The great houses of Britain have, for centuries, been the guardians of much of our history, not just of the families who built and lived…
— Julian Fellowes
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The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly airs that in…
— Mark Helprin
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