British Politics Quotes

• Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Gun, British Rule In India

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.681, GENERAL PRESS

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• One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system.

  Nick Clegg

  Party, Two, Political

  "Nick Clegg takes thorny path out of the Rose Garden". Interview with Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2012.

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• The only thing that could possibly save British politics would be Margaret Thatcher's assassin.

  Steven Morrissey

  Music, Would Be, Assassins

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• British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

  Rory Bremner

  Moving, Target, Problem

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• It's my view that human dignity - an attribute which for years has been taken by the Left in British politics - resides in fact in Tory values of independence, individuality and self determination.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Determination, Taken, Self

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• I think this is what we must not lose sight of, present a confident, positive and optimistic platform for our country's future in which this Party appeals to the centre ground of British politics.

  Nicky Morgan

  Country, Party, Optimistic

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• That this occurred at the launch of the report into the Labour Party's recent troubles with antisemitism shows how deep the sickness is in parts of left of British politics today.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Party, Politics Today, Sickness

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Nigel Farage, even if you don`t follow British politics, he`s a British politician but you may recognize him from his frequent visits to the United States, for example, his time at Trump Tower. You may recognize him from his time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump.

  Rachel Maddow

  Towers, Campaigns, May

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.

  Jane Goodall

  Decision, Political, Trying

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• It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.

  Alexander Lebedev

  British, Polite, Interfere

  "Alexander Lebedev profile: ex-KGB agent says he will champion a free press". Interview with Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. January, 14, 2009.

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• The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics

  Clare Short

  Country, Depressing, Politics

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• He made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook]

  John Prescott

  Government, Robins, Made

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• If there is any emergence of a fourth party in British politics, it is the task of the Liberal Party to strangle it at birth.

  Cyril Smith

  Party, Tasks, Birth

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• Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher's name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it.

  Steven Morrissey

  Light, Names, People

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• I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

  David Miliband

  Shields, Committed, South

  "Brothers who would be king". Interview With Vincent Moss, www.mirror.co.uk. August 29, 2010.

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• I know too much about British politics to comment on British politics.

  Helle Thorning-Schmidt

  Too Much, Comment, Knows

  "Denmark's Thorning-Schmidt heads to Downing Street to meet David Cameron" by Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2011.

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