British Quotes

It's hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?

It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?

It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.

I have invested the best part of my adult political life in helping to try to build up this movement and I am far from perfect but I do think I am able, through the media, to deliver a good, simple, understandable message.

I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery.

I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.

I believe I can lead this party from the front as a campaigning organization.

Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be?

But there's certainly only one thing I could never agree with George Galloway on. He's a teetotaller and wants to close all the bars in the House of Commons. That is just not on.

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.

Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives.

It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain.

If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.

Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do.

We were at Pye Studios for half an hour so we set the gear up and we did two tracks. A month later we found out it was selling thirty thousand copies a day.

The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience. Then we licensed the album to EMI.

Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music.

If you had a good radio - and everybody did in those days - you could find it.

I broke up the band in the office in Gerrard Street.

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

I took drugs because we all took drugs.

I think I'm really powerful. They'll smash me, probably.

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.