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• I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state.

  George Osborne

  Topics in Health

  Tags in People, British, Services

• I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.

  George Osborne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, British

• I think you can look at the British economy with confidence.

  George Osborne

  Topics in Confidence, Economy

  Tags in British

• The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm.

  George Osborne

  Topics in Economy

  Tags in British, Instability

• The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer.

  George Osborne

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in People, British

• Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.

  Theresa May

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Forces, British, Mass

• As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week.

  George J. Mitchell, Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in British, Irish, Governments

• There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

  George Henry Borrow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Countries, British, Islands

• I’ve had more than 12,000 emails from the United States. It’s not easy in the United States to find out the email address of a British parliamentarian.

  George Galloway

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in British, United States, Parliamentary

• There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.

  David Mamet

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Profound, British

• I love the British.

  David Mamet

  Topics in Love

  Tags in British

• Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.

  John Major

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conflict, British, Troops

• There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

  Gavyn Davies

  Topics in Life

  Tags in People, British, Responsibility

• I’m still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent – you get contaminated after so long.

  Gary Oldman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, British, Accent

• Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He’s on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.

  Gary Alexander Neville

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Successful, British, Player

• I give no more paroles to British officers.

  Christopher Gadsden

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Give, British

• In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.

  William Whipple

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Opinion, Advantage, British

• The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

  Robert Trout

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ugly, India, British

• The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.

  Robert Morley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happy, British

• I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too.

  Eileen Atkins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, British, Excruciating