#britain

The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it. ↗

— Kenneth Clarke

#am #britain #conservative #conservative party #deteriorated

Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don't see as much of: defense aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 percent of the world's mobile phones. ↗

— Evan Davis

#britain #cars #chips #defense #designing

Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

#britain #cannot #contributed #hugely #immigrants

I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's what they are in France and in Great Britain and in Canada. ↗

— Jonathan Krohn

#canada #disagree #evil #france #great

The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#agent #britain #chosen #court #deliver

(On Captain Britain) "Every British person thinks he's got the same accent as them. The air around him is warm like a summer meadow. He smells of honey. I've seen grown men weep at the sight of him. ↗

— Paul Cornell

#men

Actually—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine claim underlay not just 'the occupation' but the whole idea of a separate state for Jews in Palestine. Take away the divine warrant for the Holy Land and where were you, and what were you? Just another land-thief like the Turks or the British, except that in this case you wanted the land without the people. And the original Zionist slogan—'a land without a people for a people without a land'—disclosed its own negation when I saw the densely populated Arab towns dwelling sullenly under Jewish tutelage. You want irony? How about Jews becoming colonizers at just the moment when other Europeans had given up on the idea? ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#britain #colonialism #europe #holy-land #irony

I would sum up the German character best by saying that they are the best of losers and the worst of winners. ↗

— Edmund Ironside

#germany #history #world-war-ii #world-war-ii

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#empire #found #great #great britain #lost

I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that hardly impinges on some places at all. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#another #being #britain #china #country