“Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require.” GivingGovernmentAbilityDecisionBritishDeclarationReluctantClarificationBritish Government Author:Martin McGuinness
“The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.” GovernmentLeftDoorsInvolvedGunBritishBritish GovernmentSinn Fein Author:Martin McGuinness
“No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had.” SaidCountryEnoughProblemGovernmentRichCostTaxesBritishAccountantsBritish Government Author:Donald Sutherland
“The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.” GovernmentBritishAcceptedReportsBritish Government Author:Dick Spring
“For the past 15 years or so, British governments have tried to persuade the rest of us that the best judges of the national interest are...businessmen. This may be a ridiculous statement, but -- ominously -- fewer and fewer people laugh at it.” PeopleYearsMayGovernmentPastInterestLaughingJudgingEconomicsBritishRidiculousStatementsFewerBusinessmanNational InterestsBritish Government Author:Neal Ascherson
“Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when more than half of our gross national product, and all of our foreign exchange, was being spent on the war. I was lucky to be present at one of his rare appearances in Cambridge, when he gave a lecture with the title "Newton, the Man." Four years later he died of heart failure, precipitated by overwork and the hardships of crossing the Atlantic repeatedly in slow propeller-driven airplanes under wartime conditions.” MenYearsHeartWarGovernmentHalfEconomyFourEconomicConditionsHe ManProductsLuckyDiedResponsibleAppearanceBritishDrivenChiefsTitlesHardshipFour YearsAirplaneGrossLecturesNewtonCrossingsAdviserCambridgeWartimeOverworkKeynesBritish GovernmentHeart FailurePropellerForeign ExchangeBritish Economy Author:Freeman Dyson
“Everyone knows that the Zionist regime is a tool in the hands of the United States and British governments.” KnowsStatesHandsGovernmentUnitedUnited StatesToolsBritishRegimesZionistBritish Government Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
“Unless the Arab states give Israel formal recognition, within secure, recognised and mutually agreed boundaries, as a permanent feature of the geography and politics of the Middle East. But if Israel is to obtain this recognition, she must, in a settlement, put an end to the territorial occupation which she has maintained since the war of 1967; the nine members of the European Community have declared that this is an essential element in a settlement. On behalf of the British Government I underline that need today.” IfsNeedsGivingWarEndsStatesGovernmentTodayCommunityMiddleMembersEssentialsElementsIsraelBritishEastBoundariesNineSecureRecognitionPermanentFeaturesOccupationMiddle EastFormalBehalfGeographySettlementTerritorialBritish Government Author:Anthony Crosland
“I will walk on no grave of Ulster's honoured dead to do a deal with the IRA or the British government.” GovernmentWalksDealsBritishGravesIraBritish GovernmentUlster Author:Ian Paisley
“No British Government ever will and ever can risk the bones of a British grenadier.” GovernmentRiskBritishBonesBritish Government Author:Austen Chamberlain
“It seemed to me singularly ill-contrived for the British government to be going to war with Hitler when Hitler might have been about to attack the Russians, and even more ill-contrived that, when Hitler did attack the Russians, he had already defeated the French army. What I'm saying is that the war shouldn't have been started in September 1939...from the point of view of Britain, the war was really not a good thing and I would regard it as, in effect, a defeat.” Has BeensWarGovernmentMightViewsEffectsArmyRegardGood ThingsDefeatIllBritishPoint Of ViewBritainDefeatedSeptemberMight Have BeenGoing To WarBritish GovernmentFrench Army Author:Maurice Cowling
“Sinn Fein say, "The British government are buggers".” GovernmentBritishBritish GovernmentSinn Fein Author:Eddie Mair