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If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers. -- Nelson Mandela
What Britain needs is an iron lady. -- Margaret Thatcher
There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries. -- Michael Ignatieff
Britain leads the way in fund raising. I am so proud of Britain. -- Sharon Osbourne
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in. -- David Lloyd George
I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since. -- Anne Stevenson
Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain. -- Gordon Brown
I think I owe it to myself and my fans in Britain to play one more Wimbledon. -- Goran Ivanisevic
We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't. -- Francis Maude
We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain -- Cindy Sheehan
Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War. -- Eamon de Valera
When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England. -- George Mikes
The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically. -- Emily Greene Balch
Today, bilateral relations with Britain are excellent, with cooperation in many areas and both countries continuing to work on strengthening these ties. -- Hassanal Bolkiah
After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather. -- George Harrison
Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy. -- J. B. Priestley
Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't. -- Jonathan Coe
... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany. -- Franz Halder
Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books. -- Irvine Welsh
When you want to make it clear to the rest of the world that you are not an imperialist, the best countries to have with you are Britain and Spain. -- Bill Maher
The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain. -- Vivienne Westwood
We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened. -- Liam Fox
In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it. -- David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success. -- Isoroku Yamamoto
I love filming in Britain. -- Jason Priestley
Class still matters in Britain today. -- Johnny Vegas
Britain possesses no climate, only weather. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Britain is obsessed with political correctness. -- Marcus Brigstocke
Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society. -- Robert Reich
In Britain, everything is policed except crime. -- Mark Steyn
Britain is an open and tolerant country. -- Theresa May
Britain never had a greater sporting ambassador. -- Jimmy Greaves
Britain's such a twisted, weird little place. -- Graham Norton
America: It's like Britain, only with buttons. -- Ringo Starr
Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence. -- Tony Benn
My guilty pleasure is 'Britain's Next Top Model'. -- April Pearson
Especially in Britain, people want to limit you. -- Rosamund Pike
Without Britain, Europe would remain only a torso. -- Ludwig Erhard
I am the last of Britain's stately homos. -- Quentin Crisp
Britain's got talent, enormous talent; that's very obvious. -- Simon Cowell
My goal is to have a Firm Britain. -- Fern Britton
Hating Britain is a fundamental part of being British -- Ben Mitchell
Americans are much more open than people in Britain. -- Michael Sheen
We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain. -- Wendell Willkie
Leaving the EU isn't the answer to Britain's problems. -- Sadiq Khan
I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today. -- Gordon Ramsay
My job is to stop Britain from going red. -- Margaret Thatcher
I can't bear Britain in decline. I just can't. -- Margaret Thatcher
Britain does not want a return to boom and bust. -- Gordon Brown
It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur. -- Harold MacMillan
Britain has become a net exporter of Islamism and Jihadism. -- Maajid Nawaz
Britain's last gold medal was a bronze in 1952 in Helsinki -- Nigel Starmer-Smith
What is right for the family is right for Britain. -- Margaret Thatcher
The people of Great Britain have had enough of experts. -- Michael Gove
Britain has the IRA and no one cancels concerts there. -- Sharon Osbourne
A1 Great Britain has to look at the longer term. -- John Surtees
For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse. -- William Golding
Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain. -- Frank Portman
There's no question that there is more anti-religion noise in Britain. -- Trevor Phillips
Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics. -- Ai Weiwei
Old man, 40 years old against young hungry man from Great Britain! -- Vitali Klitschko
Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost. -- Tacitus
You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system. -- George Osborne
Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring. -- Sara Sheridan
Kneejerk interventionism or kneejerk isolationism is the wrong course for Britain. -- Douglas Alexander
I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community. -- John Major
A free and independent Britain is a blessing to the world. -- Donald Trump
Britain is a very small country with a very large press. -- David Hockney
By the end of the 1970s Britain was in a mess. -- Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking
I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes. -- Annie Lennox
The BBC is another part of the destruction of Great Britain. -- Norman Tebbit
Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal. -- Gordon Brown
Our party: New Labour. Our mission: new Britain. New Labour new Britain. -- Tony Blair
Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing. -- Margaret Heffernan
Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping. -- William Hague
Middlesbrough is the second greatest place to live in Britain! Behind Hartlepool. -- Jeff Stelling
While I enjoy spending time in L.A., Britain is my home. -- Michael Sheen
In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain. -- Chiwetel Ejiofor
The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain's saving grace. -- Martin Parr
In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment. -- Christopher Lee
I am very pro-royal. Britain without them would be a sadder place. -- Alison Jackson
You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again. -- Ken Livingstone
Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids. -- Elton John
In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain. -- Chiwetel Ejiofor
Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git. -- Paddy Ashdown
Britain is not the same anymore of course. It's never the same. -- Van Morrison
In three weeks Britain will have her neck wrung like a chicken. -- Maxime Weygand
I work in Britain, where women are allowed to look their age. -- Tamsin Greig
The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq. -- Bashar al-Assad
The relationship between Britain and the US is fantastically important when confronting terrorism. -- Tony Blair
What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings. -- Zaha Hadid
In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain. -- Mike Crapo
Britain has the most creative, dynamic and nimble fashion industry in the world. -- Natalie Massenet
I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct. -- Jonathan Sacks
Crushing defeat for Great Britain #Euref. History will show no one won today. -- David Miliband
Is this government of Britain's Isle, and this the royalty of Albion's King? -- William Shakespeare
In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses. -- Roger Scruton
There is more than enough room in the world for Germany and Britain. -- John Amery
Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain. -- Georges Duhamel
What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north. -- Robert Menzies
I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government. -- William Hague
Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role. -- Dean Acheson
In Britain, it's almost as if we're ashamed of having ambition and drive. -- Cat Deeley
I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world. -- Edwin Starr
It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain. -- Marcus Buckingham
What I like about Britain is that I can live a normal life here. -- Kevin Spacey
Great Britain has long been one of our strongest friends in the free world. -- Marsha Blackburn
Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness. -- David Cameron
The message I take all round the world is Britain is open for business. -- William Hague
[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We'll go quietly. -- Queen Elizabeth II
Britain no longer exists. It is a trace of what it used to be. -- Muammar al-Gaddafi
Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood. -- Joseph Stalin
We had to do what we had to do - Britain is great again. -- Margaret Thatcher
I want Britain to be the home of successful competitive and stable financial services. -- George Osborne
Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap. -- David Chipperfield
There are two completely different Britains. There's London, and there's the rest of Britain. -- Nigel Farage
It remains overwhelmingly and compellingly in Britain's national interest that the EU should succeed. -- Theresa May
Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America. -- Dan Aykroyd
The American dream? We don't have a dream in Britain because we're bloody awake! -- Al Murray

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