Britain Quotes - Page 17

• In America I think we need to move towards a social democracy, European-style basically, and I think that in Britain we do as well.

  Irvine Welsh

  Moving, Thinking, America

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The first time I went to West Virginia I was surprised by how poor it was. It was like north India, there's kids running around in bare feet. The white working class has been disenfranchised as well. It's been disenfranchised by the liberal-left as well as the conservative-right. You really have to get people right across America and Britain and Europe and the world as a whole concentrating on the economic issues that affect them, because when you don't have that, you have all these phony, racist and cultural wars, and sexist wars.

  Irvine Welsh

  Running, War, Kids

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state.

  Irvine Welsh

  Thinking, Becoming, Poor

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• European security may now depend on Germany, France, Britain and one or two others, and it's better to start planning now for the possibility of European-only cyber-defense, counter-terrorism, and conventional defense too.

  Anne Applebaum

  Two, France, Germany

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I have been told by people close to Trump that "Brexit Britain" is the only foreign policy issue that interests him, because he thinks the UK referendum paved the way for him. He hopes to help Britain leave the EU, and possibly to damage the EU, by offering a trade deal.

  Anne Applebaum

  Thinking, Issues, Offering

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The colonial power tended to be France or Britain, and the Soviets were proclaimed as anti-imperialists. So, if you align yourself with the Soviets, it fits nicely with that kind of rhetorical division, but in reality it does not get you anywhere.

  Nigel Gibson

  Reality, Doe, Division

  "Frantz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings: An Interview with Nigel Gibson". Interview with Yasser Munif, www.middleeastdigest.com. August 17, 2012.

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• I read in the paper today the list of the most popular boys' names in Britain. The first was Jack, the second was Mohammed. That makes me feel a little bit worried.

  Richard Dawkins

  Boys, Names, Firsts

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• In Britain you don't usually learn about evolution until you are about 15. I should have thought that you should start at about 8. But I could be wrong about that.

  Richard Dawkins

  Should Have, Evolution, Should

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Membership in the European Community, now the European Union, has helped Ireland to take its place as a European country with all the member states, including Britain. It has therefore helped the maturing of a good bilateral relationship with Britain, lifting part of the burden of history.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Community, Unions

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• We have long had emigration in Ireland. But the nature of emigration has changed. With ferries to Britain and the continent, as well as air travel, emigration isn't the cut­off it used to be. In addition, some of our young people are being educated to levels beyond our present capacity to provide the jobs they are qualified to do. So they go abroad. Many want to come back, especially when they have children they would want to be raised in the Irish society and in the Irish educational system.

  Mary Robinson

  Jobs, Children, Educational

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• David Lloyd George had been to Germany, and been so dazzled by the Führer that he compared him to George Washington. Hitler was a 'born leader', declared the befuddled former British Prime Minister. He wished that Britain had 'a man of his supreme quality at the head of affairs in our country today'. This from the hero of the First World War! The man who had led Britain to victory over the Kaiser!

  Boris Johnson

  Country, War, Hero

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• We have an extreme rightwing government in Britain, although it's called the Labour government. That's confused a lot of people, but it's confusing them less and less.

  John Pilger

  Confused, Government, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• The British Labour Party has always had a very strong "Atlanticist component," with an obsequiousness to American policies, and Blair represents this wing. He's clearly obsessed with Iraq. He has to be because the overwhelming majority of the people of Britain oppose a military action. I've never known a situation like it.

  John Pilger

  Strong, Military, Party

  Source: progressive.org

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• I think that right now, the global political crisis that we see all over the place has to do with virulent nostalgia. Everywhere, people are talking about taking us back to the good old days. Whether that's the "caliphate," or Britain before the EU, or "Make America Great Again." But, we can't go back and many people wouldn't want to go back even if we could.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Thinking, Talking, America

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• I would have bet money that Britain would not vote to leave the EU, and I would have been wrong. I would have bet money that Trump would not have been the Republican nominee, and I would have been wrong and I certainly would have bet money that he wouldn't win the election.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Winning, Election, Vote

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.

  Billy Connolly

  Thinking, Europe

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• When you think of how much violence, how much blood... how much has been destroyed to create the great nations, America, Australia, Britain, Germany, France, Belgium - even India, Pakistan. Having destroyed so much to make them, we must have nuclear weapons to protect them - and climate change to hold up their way of life... a two-pronged annihilation project.

  Arundhati Roy

  Thinking, Blood, Two

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I've always felt really good about England. I've always felt really, really good about Britain.

  Irvine Welsh

  England, Felt

  Source: thequietus.com

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• My preoccupation has been from the very beginning that I believe that the "Brexit" referendum result is the most disastrous peacetime result that we've seen in Britain.

  Michael Heseltine

  Believe, Preoccupation, Referendums

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• In Europe there's kind of a reaction to the European Union, kind of a move towards some kind of regionalization. It's more advanced in some regions than others, like in Spain for example. Catelan was repressed under Franco. People spoke it, but not publicly. It's now the language of Catelonia. The Basque language is being revived, not just the language but the culture, the folk music and everything else. So you're getting more diverse societies, and it's happening in Britain as well.

  Noam Chomsky

  Moving, Europe, Diverse Society

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Think of Europe in the 20th century. Two World Wars generated by nationalism. France, Germany, Britain fighting with each other.

  Daniel Fried

  War, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Put on top of that the fact that the whole world is looking at Britain and saying how is this country going to pay its way in the future. They are looking at other countries like Greece who can't pay their way in the future and you see savage spending cuts, big cuts in pay.

  George Osborne

  Country, Cutting, Savages

  Source: blog.moneysavingexpert.com

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• There are those people who don't want change. Well there needs to be a coalition for change amongst the hard-working mainstream majority of the country to crack on and sort out Britain's problems.

  George Osborne

  Country, Hard Work, People

  Source: blog.moneysavingexpert.com

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• I'm fed up with Britain being condemned to this future where we borrow the Chinese in order to buy from the Chinese the things that they make for us.

  George Osborne

  Order, Chinese, Feds

  Source: blog.moneysavingexpert.com

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• Britain is China's best partner in the West.

  George Osborne

  West, Partners, China

  Source: www.economist.com

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