Britain Quotes - Page 16

• I don't have to negotiate an arms agreement with Great Britain or with France.

  Barack Obama

  Agreement, Arms, France

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Trump's election is part of an international trend that's no less alarming, in Britain, in France, in Germany, in Austria. Vladimir Putin wanted to see this outcome no less than he would like to see nationalists and anti-Europeanists win in France.

  David Remnick

  Winning, France, Germany

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• No two countries are identical, and obviously, there's a difference between a referendum on a very complex relationship between Great Britain and the rest of Europe, and a presidential election in the United States.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Europe, Two

  Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece in Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2016.

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• Britain is an open and tolerant country.

  Theresa May

  Country

  "British Prime Minister Theresa May Outlines Plan To Leave European Union". "All Things Considered" with Kelly Mcevers, weos.org. January 17, 2017.

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• Brexit must mean control of the number of people who come to Britain from Europe, and that is what I will deliver.

  Theresa May

  Mean, Numbers, Europe

  "General election 2017: Thornberry ambushes Fallon over Assad meeting - as it happened" by Matthew Weaver, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2017.

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• It remains overwhelmingly and compellingly in Britain's national interest that the EU should succeed.

  Theresa May

  Succeed, Should, Interest

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I know there are some voices calling for a punitive deal that punishes Britain. That would be an act of calamitous self-harm for the countries of Europe, and it would not be the act of a friend.

  Theresa May

  Country, Self Harm, Europe

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Our allies, Great Britain, Australia, Israel, some of the strongest militaries in the world, allow transgender people to serve openly and have experienced no ill effects from that.

  Allyson Robinson

  Israel, Australia, People

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• The days of Britain and America intervening in sovereign countries in an attempt to remake the world in our own image are over.

  Theresa May

  Country, America, World

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• A free and independent Britain is a blessing to the world.

  Donald Trump

  Independent, Blessing, World

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Both America and Britain understand that governments must be responsive to everyday working people, that governments must represent their own citizens.

  Donald Trump

  Government, America, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I think Brexit's going to be a wonderful thing for Britain. I think when it irons out, you're gonna have your own identity and you're going to have the people that you want in your country and you're going to be able to make free trade deals without having somebody watching you and what you're doing.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Thinking, Iron

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I define the terms "founding fathers" and "founders" broadly to include an entire generation or two of Americans from many walks of life who, in the last half of the 18th century and early 19th century, articulated the rights of colonists, secured independence from Great Britain, and established new constitutional republics at both the national and state levels. This definition includes a cast of thousands who played their patriotic part at the local, state, and/or national levels. Among them were citizen soldiers, elected representatives, polemicists, and patriot preachers.

  Daniel L Dreisbach

  Father, Patriotic, Two

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Just as the children of Israel were directed by God to depart from the land of their oppression with its tyrannical monarch, cross a great sea, and establish a new nation, so, too, the children of Great Britain were led by God to leave the land of their religious oppression, cross a great ocean, inhabit a promised land, and, eventually, resist a "tyrannical" George III and create a new nation in "God's American Israel."

  Daniel L Dreisbach

  Religious, Children, Ocean

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Britain didn't win WWII by panicking. Let´s be bold, determined and stick to the best of values.

  Hans Rosling

  Winning, Sticks, Determined

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Britain, as a pop music nation, used to have this very 'empire' kind of attitude. We used to 'invade' the world with our bands, you know? That's obviously changed, because in Europe they're much more interested in bands speaking their own language. Especially in France and Germany. They're starting to develop their own bands much more.

  James Dean Bradfield

  Attitude, Europe, Empires

  Source: www.thisisyesterday.com

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• This rationale, which justified the mixed constitution of Great Britain, might have made some sense in 1776, but by 1787 most American thinkers had come to believe that all parts of their balanced governments represented in one way or another the sovereign people. They had left the Aristotelian idea of mixed estates - monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy - way behind. [John] Adams had not, and his stubbornness on this point caused him no end of trouble.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Believe, Government, Ideas

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• [John Adams and Tomas Jefferson] shared experience in 1775 - 1776 in bringing about the separation from Britain and their service in Europe cemented a friendship that in the end withstood the most serious political and religious differences that one could imagine, especially their differences over the French Revolution. It was probably Jefferson's obsession with politeness and civility that kept the relationship from becoming irreparably broken.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Religious, Europe, Differences

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• Some people in America feel that Pakistan is being nice to us, and that we should walk away fro mthem. But Pakistan is important to the region, to the world and to us, because Pakistan has 100 nuclear warheads and they're rushing to build a lot more. They'll have more than Great Britain sometime in the - in the relatively near future.

  Mitt Romney

  Nice, Rushing, America

  Source: genius.com

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• Stop thinking that if Britain or America or Russia or the West or whatever becomes superior, then we'll beat them, and then we'll all have a rest and live happily ever after. That doesn't work.

  George Harrison

  Thinking, Russia, America

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality' Read more at http://www.beliefnet.com/faiths/hinduism/2001/12/the-mantra-keeps-me-in-tune-with-reality.aspx?p=6#12osg66vSlBzUKIL.99". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. 1982.

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• When I came to write my Thomas Cromwell books, I moved onto the center ground of English history, but I was never there before. I didn't feel it was my history particularly, coming from Northern Britain, being of Irish extraction, being a cradle Catholic. The image of England I grew up with felt somewhere else. There was an official England in postcards, but it wasn't one I had visited. But I decided to march onto the center ground and occupy it whether it was mine or not.

  Hilary Mantel

  Book, Writing, Somewhere Else

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• It's the reason why so many people left Britain like I did in the mid 60s because Britain was exactly the same then as America is today, getting ready to redistribute social wealth and it didn't work. You've seen that in places like Greece, Portugal, Iceland, Ireland where the entire country's business has collapsed, gone bankrupt. That's where America is heading.

  Robin Leach

  Country, Iceland, America

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• In every single case, the truth is that the atmosphere created by the Iraq invasion and the staggeringly mismanaged occupation has incited terrorists to act. It's been a contributing factor. It's unavoidable throughout Europe - in Spain, in Germany, in Britain. The truth is that we need long-term American policy to shift in order to really soak up and get rid of these sources of terrorism that threaten our Western allies.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  Order, Europe, Iraq

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• For me, 9/11 was a game changer. It altered my perception of the security threat we faced. I took the position that Britain should be shoulder to shoulder with the U.S. It was a big decision; I didn't take it lightly, or in ignorance of its consequences. It's a big commitment for a country to give, but I believed it was the right thing to do.

  Tony Blair

  Country, Ignorance, Commitment

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Bowie's death is a very emotional thing. My generation of working-class Britain, it feels like we lost our spiritual leader, our guru. I always thought that if I was to be a hundred, somehow Bowie would be a hundred and fifteen. He'd be there to still steer me and guide me.

  Irvine Welsh

  Spiritual, Emotional, Class

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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