United Kingdom Quotes - Page 4

• The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today.

  Gavyn Davies

  Powerful, Kingdoms, Today

  4 Copy quote

• We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.

  Rafael Correa

  Country, Wish, Kingdoms

  "Julian Assange asylum application may take time, says Ecuador president" by Esther Addley, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For me N.M.E. was a very big thing. When I first came to the United Kingdom I started taking pictures for them and I became their main photographer for five years, and that's really been the basis of everything I've been doing since.

  Anton Corbijn

  Years, Kingdoms, Firsts

  4 Copy quote

• I think it's inevitable that New Zealand will become a republic and that would reflect the reality that New Zealand is a totally sovereign-independent 21st century nation 12,000 miles from the United Kingdom.

  Helen Clark

  Independent, Thinking, Reality

  10 Copy quote

• Ten thousand officers and men named Smith died in the First World War. One thousand four hundred Campbells died, six thousand Joneses, and one thousand Murphys. Smith, Campbell, Jones and Murphy: the names of the United Kingdom, whose presence in regiments from all four countries speaks of the ebb and flow of peoples within these islands, of a common sacrifice, and a shared agony that burned in so many million hearts down the decades.

  Kevin Myers

  Country, Peace, War

  4 Copy quote

• I reiterated our hope that negotiations over the United Kingdom's exit from the E.U. will be conducted in a smooth and orderly and transparent fashion and preserve as closely as possible the economic and political and security relationships between the U.K. and E.U.

  Barack Obama

  Fashion, Political, Kingdoms

  "Read President Obama's Comments Urging Donald Trump to Stand Up to Russia". time.com. November 17, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think Brexit will go down that it will end up being a fantastic thing for the United Kingdom. I think in the end, it will be a tremendous asset, not a tremendous liability.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Kingdoms, Fantastic

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The deliberate weakening of the labour movement by the machinations of market fundamentalists, gaining momentum during the periods when Margaret Thatcher led the United Kingdom and Ronald Reagan governed in the United States, contributed to the decline of human rights.

  Richard A. Falk

  Rights, Labour Movement, Kingdoms

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself.

  Bill Hicks

  America, People, United States

  7 Copy quote

• Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.

  Prince Charles

  Inspirational, Business, Men

  6 Copy quote

• Thankfully, due to the United Kingdom and the commitment of the Westminster government we are able to ensure that money brought in, whether it be from the City of London or from North Sea oil, can be pooled and directed to wherever it is needed most.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Commitment, Sea, Cities

  "An independent Scotland could not pay welfare bill, says Iain Duncan Smith". www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom.

  Cat Stevens

  Media, Issues, Islam

  9 Copy quote

• One of the great ball-givers in the United Kingdom is Nicholas Parsons.

  Derek Nimmo

  Balls, Kingdoms, Giver

  4 Copy quote

• Let the debate begin, let the rest of the world know that the iconic symbol of the United Kingdom may change

  Ian Lucas

  World, May, Kingdoms

  Speech at the House of Commons Debates on Union Flag (Government Buildings), www.publications.parliament.uk. November 26, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've got to be honest, and I'm not just saying this because the majority of you reading this live there, but I love the United Kingdom. I just flat-out love it.

  Corey Taylor

  Reading, Memorable, Majority

  6 Copy quote

• No one can truly be prepared for such devastation and pure malevolence, but the United Kingdom can always look to the United States as an ally resolved to stand firm in the war on terrorism.

  Michael C. Burgess

  War, Looks, Devastation

  9 Copy quote

• Unfortunately, the relations between the United Kingdom and Russia have not developed in the best possible way; however, it has never been our fault. It was not we who decided to discontinue relations with the United Kingdom; it was the UK who preferred to "freeze" our bilateral contacts in various fields.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Kingdoms, Way

  Source: thesaker.is

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets. [...] The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Country, War, Order

  "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism". Essay by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, www.marxists.org. 1917.

  89 Copy quote

  Show source

• The U.N. [the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention] has looked into this whole situation. They spent eighteen months in formal, adversarial litigation. [So it's] me and the U.N. verses Sweden and the U.K. Who's right? The U.N. made a conclusion that I am being arbitrarily detained illegally, deprived of my freedom and that what has occurred has not occurred within the laws that the United Kingdom and Sweden, and that [those countries] must obey. It is an illegal abuse.

  Julian Assange

  Country, Law, Abuse

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national moment - of joy or sadness, in the UK or around the world, at times when the nation wants to celebrate, mourn or just enjoy itself people turn to the BBC.

  Gavyn Davies

  Sadness, People, Joy

  4 Copy quote

• The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity.

  John Hume

  Government, People, Unity

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on earth. According to the United Nations' Human Development Report (2005), they are also the healthiest, as indicated by life expectancy, adult literacy, per capita income, educational attainment, gender equality, homicide rate, and infant mortality. . . . Conversely, the fifty nations now ranked lowest in terms of the United Nations' human development index are unwaveringly religious.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Educational, Australia

  Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

  95 Copy quote

  Show source