British Quotes

I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.

I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.

I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.

Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.

For the security of the UK, it matters a lot for Somalia to become a more stable place.

Elected presidents are for countries.

Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.

At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.

As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

A generation of children has been betrayed.

You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course - and it's important to stress this - you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack.

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.

Time is not on Gaddafi's side. People ask about the exit strategy. It's Colonel Gaddafi who needs an exit strategy because this pressure will only mount and it will be intensified over the coming days and weeks.

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.

Egypt is a sovereign nation.

You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.

When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.

To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.

I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.

There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of i

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.