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“Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others.”

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

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A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

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I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.

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I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.

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When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances.

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Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better.

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All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!

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British Forces should be in a position to give back in a ten fold measure any attack that the Germans may attempt.

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Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

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It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

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The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

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