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“While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late 20th century is to make every effort to see value in the contemporary and in the future.”

Seems Values Challenges Effort Century Late Contemporary Britain Overwhelming 20th Century Great Value

Author:Stephen Bayley

“Without Britain, Europe would remain only a torso.”

Europe Britain Torso

Author:Ludwig Erhard

“By the end of the 1970s Britain was in a mess.”

Ends Mess Britain

Author:Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking

“I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.”

Bits Intellectual Britain Unnecessary Baggage

Author:Chris Patten

“Britain, and my hometown, will always be with me wherever I go and whatever I do - but I prefer to live in California.”

California Britain Hometown

Author:Eric Burdon

“We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.”

Years Shows Culture Tvs Britain Affected Tv Shows

Author:Prince Andrew

“Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.”

Firsts Whole Poor Birth Method Britain Birth Control Clinic Contraception Marie Informing

Author:Dora Russell

“I've always held the view that great states need strategic space. I mean, George Washington took his space from George III. Britain took it from just about everybody. Russia took all of Eastern Europe. Germany's taken it from everywhere they can, and China will want its space too.”

Want Needs Mean States Space Views Taken Europe China Russia Germany Britain Eastern Strategic Eastern Europe

Author:Paul Keating

“If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.”

Ifs World Country States Shows Born Poor United United States Audience Study Rich Tvs Huge Goes On Britain Telling The Truth Other Countries Mobility Become Rich Upward Mobility

Author:David Frum

“The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are loads of ways you can protest against them, and booing is a pretty weak way of doing it.”

Way Politician Weak Britain Protest Load Booing

Author:Alastair Campbell

“It's very different doing a food show in America and doing one in Britain. I did a 20-part series for the BBC series called 'Eating With the Enemy.' The budget for all 20 episodes was probably the budget for a single episode of 'Top Chef.' It's the difference between making a home movie in your backyard and going to Hollywood.”

Different Shows Home America Differences Enemy Eating Hollywood Series Budgets Britain Episodes Chef Backyards

Author:Toby Young

“What I can say that's different in American television… in Britain, they wouldn't cancel something after a couple of episodes. In the States they would. They would just decide it's not working, take it off and put something else in on the fall schedule.”

I Can Different States Fall Television Couple Britain Episodes Schedules American Television

Author:John Barrowman

“I believe that Europe without Britain at the heart will be less reform-driven, less open, less international Europe.”

Believe Heart I Believe Europe International Driven Reform Britain

Author:Jose Manuel Barroso

“I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's Central School of Speech and Drama, and my dad and I had a few tense words about that. He wanted me to go to British drama school.”

Made States Wanted School Opportunity Decision United United States Dad Drama Speech My Dad British Britain Tense

Author:Kate Burton

“In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.”

Strong Party Standards Gold England Conservative Britain Labour Very Strong Economist Consensus Labour Party Conservative Party Gold Standard Civil Service

Author:Ed Balls

“The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years.”

Years Five Hundred Islands Britain Invasion Withdrawal Julius

Book:The Age of Chivalry: Or Legends of King Arthur,

Source: The Age of Chivalry: Or Legends of King Arthur,

“My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.”

Country Problem Community Levels Cities Crime Highest Gun Areas Spread London Britain Confined Inner City Gun Crime Hackney

Author:Diane Abbott

“Change is a process: future is a destination. People want a sense of hope, possibility and pride about Britain.”

People Want Process Possibility Pride Britain Destination

Author:Douglas Alexander

“It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.”

Bigs America Names Known Odd Britain

Author:Marcus Buckingham

“In the States everyone aspires to be middle class. It's so engrained into the American psyche: As long as you work hard you're going to be rich some day. The history of Britain is that if you're born working class, you're going to stay there, although that is changing.”

Ifs Long Hard States Born Class Rich Middle Hard Work Britain Middle Class Aspire Working Class

Author:Nigel Cole

“Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.”

Economic Oil Mess Britain Explosions Oil Price

Author:Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

“Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.”

World Problem Government Political Challenges Class Painful Pity Britain Massive Preparing

Author:Vince Cable

“I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy to millions of Britain's families - will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come.”

People Years Firsts Problem Millions Bigger British Debt Legacy Rising Britain Necks Brown Bankruptcy Bigger Problems

Author:Vince Cable

“My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the past. It means keeping Britain open to inward investors, trade and skilled workers. It means cutting red tape which is suffocating growing companies which create jobs.”

“Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.”

Stills Ideas Bigs Easy Selling Britain Labour Bizarre Flexible Workforce

Author:Vince Cable

“The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.”

Long Has Beens Growth Economy Skills Weakness Standing Overcoming Investment Debt Spending Driven Productivity Consumers Britain Binge Unbalanced

Author:Vince Cable

“There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people.”

People Courses Left Economy Masters Majors Crisis Property Financial Debt Vulnerable Servant Britain Labour Bubbles Banking Predecessors Financial Crisis Banking Crisis

Author:Vince Cable

“Great Britain revolutionized parts of their regulatory process by actually bringing the people who were going to be regulated to the table and suddenly found that they could solve the problems at a lot lower cost by, again, going back to the thing that tends to be most uninteresting, particularly in cable news, and looking at the actual process.”

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Author:Geoff Davis

“I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. - it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact.”

Matter Facts Choices Strong Half Roots Britain Adore

Author:Jennifer Ehle

“Great Britain is not part of the euro-zone; but the decision we take will have great importance for Great Britain.”

Decision Importance Britain Zone Euro Great Britain

Author:Francois Fillon

“New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known.”

Self Government Mistake Known Economic Security Policy Useless Britain Labour Serving National Security Incompetent Liability Self Serving Economic Policy Short Sighted

Author:Liam Fox

“At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.”

Looks Country Wanted Century Intellectual West France Britain Twentieth Century

Author:Karen Armstrong

“At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall.”

Feels Art Moments Wall Program Enormous Britain Bricks Knocking Brick Wall Cutbacks

Author:Peter Maxwell Davies

“The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.”

Ifs Art Profit Britain Establishment

Author:Peter Maxwell Davies

“I've put myself forward to be involved. Whether I get picked, we'll have to wait and see. Obviously everybody is excited about it, about the Olympics coming to London and the football being played in different parts of Britain.”

Different Waiting Football Involved Excited London Britain Olympics Being Played

Author:Ryan Giggs

“In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.”

America Used Challenges Tvs Terrible Drama Boring Britain Bloody Numbing

Author:Michael Imperioli

“In Britain, you do your job. When you do an American TV show, there is a sense of being one with the crew, and there is a leadership element, which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain, you just do it, leave and say, 'Thanks.'”

Different Shows Jobs Tvs Elements Thanks Britain Tv Shows Crew Curves Just Do It Learning Curve

Author:Theo James

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