“He would like Britain to take a leading role in the affairs of the EU, and to lay to rest our ambivalence about membership of the union,”
Chris Patten
“Britain leads the way in fund raising. I am so proud of Britain.”
Sharon Osbourne
“The role of Europe, with Great Britain as a central player in it, could be to create an atmosphere of support that will include our Arab partners and Israel in an environment where any advancement is somehow well accepted by the world community,”
Ehud Barak
“Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.”
Dean Acheson
“When I warned them (the French) that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, "In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken”
Winston Churchill
“If you are to give him the whole of Great Britain and Ireland for an estate, he would ask the Isle of Man for a potato garden”
Lord North
“Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.”
Gordon Brown
