Britain Quotes - Page 21

• Starting with the highest-risk countries, and focusing on the route to Britain that is widely abused, student visas, we will increase the number of interviews to considerably more than 100,000, starting next financial year. From there, we will extend the interviewing programme further across all routes to Britain, wherever the evidence takes us.

  Theresa May

  Country, Years, Numbers

  "100,000 students coming to UK face immigration interviews" by Nicholas Watt, Dan Milmo, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2012.

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• The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.

  David Miliband

  Opportunity, Phones, Class

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I mean, Britain is a country of successful Muslim businesspeople, teachers and educators, journalists. So, we have to say very strongly that the two million plus Muslims in Britain, the vast bulk of them make a huge contribution to our society, and they actually make it the vibrant society it is.

  David Miliband

  Country, Teacher, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain.

  Helen Mirren

  Python, Littles, Finesse

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• I'm interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking. I really can't believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there?

  Michael Moore

  Believe, Phones, Care

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• We have to see that we're a part of each other, and we have to take care of each other. The reason why they have universal health care in Canada and Britain, these other places? Because they believe if one suffers, everybody suffers.

  Michael Moore

  Believe, Suffering, Care

  "Michael Moore: 'We need to be a less selfish society'" by Kate Goodacre, www.digitalspy.com. July 25, 2012.

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• Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.

  Robert Mugabe

  Country, Taken, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Britain's such a twisted, weird little place.

  Graham Norton

  Littles, Twisted

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. August 2004.

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• I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.

  Gary Numan

  Attitude, Patriotic, People

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• Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0% balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy.

  Frances O'Grady

  Years, Gdp, Growth

  "Pay equality and strong unions will put Britain back to work" by Frances O'Grady, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2012.

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• There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.

  Ehud Olmert

  Country, Islamic, Russia

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• Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.

  George Osborne

  Country, Divine Right, World

  "George Osborne's speech to the Conservative party conference in full". www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2010.

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• I have done everything I can to move Britain out of the financial danger zone.

  George Osborne

  Moving, Done, Financial

  "George Osborne accused of misleading public over UK bankruptcy claim" by Phillip Inman, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2010.

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• You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.

  George Osborne

  Debt, Welfare, Tackling

  "George Osborne's speech to the Conservative party conference in full". www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2010.

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• In Britain, they have a lot of laws to protect you, and we enforce them very strongly so that our children can stay private figures, and the British press leave us alone, which is great. It means we can go on the Tube into the centre of London because it's quicker and more fun for the kids. We can do normal things.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Children, Fun, Mean

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• Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.

  Shimon Peres

  War, Mean, Rights

  "We in Israel welcome the Arab spring" by Shimon Peres, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.

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• A global deal will only be possible if Britain plays its part, leading the way with other developed countries.

  Lucy Powell

  Country, Play, Way

  "Saving the economy or saving the planet is not an either-or" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2008.

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• The era of industrial Britain, where a large section of our workforce provided cheap labour in factories and processing goods is over.

  Lucy Powell

  Eras, Factories, Workforce

  "Providing education to age 18 is crucial for Britain" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2008.

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• In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.

  J. B. Priestley

  Warfare, Nuclear, Bombs

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• I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Today, Chef, Unselfish

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• Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Children, Doctors, Years

  "Why Fighting Poverty and Hunger Is a Religious Duty" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2013.

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• I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Thinking, People, Expectations

  "Religion, Morality and the Financial Industry: An Interview With Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks". Interview with Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 25, 2011.

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• Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Past, Secular Society, Government

  "Celebrating Faith, Altruism And Our Modern Community" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2011.

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• Volunteering has been undervalued in Britain for a long time. Often it has been seen as a kind of cut-price, amateur version of work that would be better done by the state. When politicians speak about it, people hear in the background the sound of budgets being cut.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Cutting, Long, People

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• We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Church, England, Host

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