Famous Quotes & Sayings

If Britain is going to investigate journalists as terrorists - take and destroy our documents, force us to give up passwords and answer questions - how can we be sure we can protect our sources?

I am happy to be in New Britain this season. Going to Double-A is a big step and I'm really excited about the opportunity.

Stephen Hawking

I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error.

There is a very intense culture of secrecy in Britain that hasn't yet been dismantled. What passes for transparency here would serve any secret society well.

Iain Duncan Smith

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 around them.

Jack Straw

The fact that the Government is supporting pilgrims on the Hajj highlights the extent to which we in Britain live in a truly multi-cultural multi-religious society. No other Western country provides this kind of delegation.

David Miliband

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 democratic settlement, whether we can lay the political and cultural foundations for the next several years.

David Miliband

Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative - that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in the modern world.

The purpose of the 'Way Forward Group' is simply to do, in a formal way, what the royal family in Britain has always done.

Mark Haddon

I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious. Whereas, I think one of the functions laughter can perform in a book, as in life, is that it's a reaction to genuine horror.

I always thought the golden rule was pointless because it could always be refined in so many ways. In the past few years, Britain has gone on a very feckless spending spree when every other country has embarked on fiscal consolidation.

Francis Maude

They don't think we're in touch with modern Britain, or understand modern Britain or like modern Britain.

I adore Britain! It's my favourite country; I love their eccentricity. I find Britain so inspiring.

Bernard Cornwell

Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give me a Green Card, so I airily told her I'd write a book.

Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.

Adam Hochschild

I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.

Bill Bryson

One of the brilliant things about Britain is the way you've managed to save old things but to keep using them - that they've not just become museums the way they do in the United States.

Bill Bryson

I could give you a long list of things I like about Britain, but essentially what it comes down to is that I feel about Britain the same way I feel about my wife. I'm crazy about my wife - we just kind of suit each other. I wouldn't say that she's the most fantastic human being that's ever lived, but she is for me.

Michael Sheen

While I enjoy spending time in L.A., Britain is my home.

Nick Harkaway

We don't need to chase a nostalgic rendering of Britain as it never was and never can be: we need instead an understanding of who we really are and what a happy, prosperous, just nation might look like.

John Oliver

There is so much cross-pollination between the U.S. and Britain in terms of comedians. British TV comedies work well in the U.S. American stand-ups make it big in Britain.

Boris Johnson

To rely on a train in Blair's Britain is to engage in a crapshoot with the devil.

Noam Chomsky

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

Alexander Medvedev

We run serious business in Great Britain with large industrial partners and energy stations. We intend to hold 20 percent of the fuel market by 2015.

India introduced Britain to vegetarianism - see Tristram Stuart's excellent first book on this - and it is possible, indeed all too easy, to be a vegetarian in India and eat extraordinarily good, varied food every day, with very few 'repeats.'

Many employers in Britain are working their employees harder, not smarter,

London felt the upturn earlier and stronger than all of the others. Hiring in Britain didn't drop as much as it did in the rest of the world through 2003, in financial markets and other industries.

Pankaj Mishra

Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.

Jamie Bamber

It frustrates me that Britain can't make something like 'CSI' or 'The Sopranos'. Instead, British TV puts soap in primetime while every other civilized nation leaves it in daytime. Viewers should be more demanding.

It is fair to say that in the past London and Britain as a whole have been seen as a convenient place to operate international support networks.

Annika Sorenstam

Maybe somebody from Britain will go, ... They don't have to travel far.

Martin Rees

Manufacturing doesn't just mean building cars and metal-bashing; it includes making pharmaceuticals and hi-tech electronics. A crucial part of the process is the research and development that allows better and greener products to come to market. Britain has traditionally had a strong science and engineering base.

Gordon Strachan

I went to see him and I didn't see too many managers clambering over from Britain to watch him,