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Britain Quotes by Simon Jenkins
- The current anger at the march of turbines and pylons across the hills of Britain is not from nimbys. Government money has lubricated most backyard…
- The (U.K.) government's thesis that the countryside of upland and coastal Britain is 'worth sacrificing to save the planet' is an insult to science, economics…
- Every generation has its war. I have just been reminded of mine. It ended in 1989, 43 years after it began, the longest war Britain…
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- Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it… — David Attenborough
- I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries. — Jose Manuel Barroso
- Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence. — Tony Benn
- We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them,… — Tony Blair
- Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime. — Tony Blair
- But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes… — Tony Blair
- Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I… — Tony Blair
- But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was… — Bono
- I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry. — David Bowie
- The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain… — Bill Bryson
- Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation… — Bill Bryson
- Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such… — Julie Burchill