“Britain let violent speeches go on too long, ... Laxity in this area isn't good for anybody.”
Dalil Boubakeur
“The policies of the previous governments, has distanced the Islamic republic from its revolutionary origins and produced a damaging laxity.”
Kazem Jalali
“Many people say they feel let down about the reasons why Britain went to war. They feel they weren't told the whole truth about it.”
Chris Rennard
“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
“After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.”
George Harrison
“Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.”
Gordon Brown