British Quotes

I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.

I want to win and I want to be in office.

I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised.

I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners.

I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.

I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.

I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.

I am hoping very much to get re-elected but it is going to be a tough fight.

It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.

I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country.

I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.

But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.

My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.

It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw

My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

You see, money isn't everything - I know it sounds corny but I really mean it - success means a lot more.

Relatives cannot help you in the studios. You stand or fall by your own efforts.

It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment.

I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.

We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected.

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.

The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life.

The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered.