Top 1200 Britain And America Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

Britain and the United States have an enduring and special relationship based on the values of freedom, democracy and enterprise.

I came to America with a dream and I made it. The dream became reality. America is built for success.

Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.

The principles that should guide American foreign policy are simple: the world is safer when America leads, only strength ensures peace and freedom, and America must stand with its allies and challenge its adversaries.

We need to have a president that's going to pledge, as I have - I'm going to make America the number-one manufacturer so working men and women can have good paying jobs again in America.

Britain's way of dealing with disability is just to try and pretend it's not happening. A swift sweep under the carpet.

An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.

Brexit must mean control of the number of people who come to Britain from Europe, and that is what I will deliver.

Even before the Windrush scandal, it was clear Britain's immigration system was in desperate need of reform.

No one in Britain wants Fracking. But the government is, against the will of the people, trying to force it upon us all. And we're not having it.

I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself.

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

My favourite place in Britain is... my home county of Shropshire. I think it's one of the most beautiful places in the world.

You always want to test yourself at a high level, and I would be proud to represent Great Britain.

I've seen a lot of government try to solve problems, and it didn't work. And my view is that the right course for America is to have someone who understands how the economy works who will passionately get America back on track.

We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain

We were in denial about the extent to which Britain had cured itself of the poison of racism.

We should demonstrate that in war, under Churchill and Lloyd George, and in peace, Britain always was, already is, and can continue to be a leader.

Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.

Radio is very popular [in Britain], but it doesn't connect us in the same way. It seems to have this community function.

A no deal Brexit could bring Britain to a grinding halt and threaten the wellbeing of our country.

Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.

America was founded by religious people; devout people who came here because they wanted freedom of religion, It's what made America different from every other country.

We're the Fascist States of America today, not the United States of America, because the corporations are in power.

Today, many people are coming to America from very unstable situations. A hundred years ago, people came to America because they wanted to be Americans.

Membership of the E.U. makes Britain literally ungovernable, in the sense that no administration elected by the people can govern the country.

I realize that Kenya and America are very different, but experiences like this warned me that my own favorite beliefs in the miracles of free enterprise and the boundless opportunities to be had in America were largely untrue.

The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.

I don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state.

We're now interested in finding those who may attack America and arrest them before they do. We've had over nearly a thousand people have been detained in America and questioned about their motives and their intentions.

If you don't speak English, then there is no way you can take full advantage of the opportunities that modern Britain has to offer you.

Our language and literature are without a doubt Britain's greatest contribution to the cultural heritage of the world.

We benefit tremendously from the E.U. Britain does very well in getting back E.U. money for the amount it puts in.

I want Britain to lead the world in food and farming and to do that we need enough productive agricultural land.

We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain.

My mum came to Britain from Clarendon, in the south of Jamaica, to make a better life for her family.

The greatest thing anyone in Britain could do to help the future of the planet would be to have one less child.

The move towards neoliberalism in Britain was intimately bound up with the embrace of the U.S. as the country to be aped and copied.

Britain proves to be an ideal setting for many a medieval-minded crime novelist, regardless of century.

Britain's great postwar meritocratic experiment was broad-based, but it was in politics that the change was most dramatic.

Britain and the United States are, and will remain, strong and close partners on trade, security and defence.

Brexit is the people of Britain who are fed up with the European Union dominating their lives, and they want accountability.

You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn't like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I've been trying to change it ever since.

Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.

In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain.

If he was an inch taller he'd be the best center half in Britain. His father is 6 ft 2 in - I'd check the milkman.

We would only need a bespoke solution for Northern Ireland if Britain leaves the Single Market.

It is not surprising that most Pakistanis do not support America's bombardment of Afghanistan. The Afghans are neighbours on the brink of starvation and devastated by war. America has shown itself to be untrustworthy, a superpower that uses its values as a scabbard for its sword.

Britain is a desirable place to live mainly because it is an island, which most people can't get to.

Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.

We come to Birmingham every January for the 'Britain's Got Talent' auditions and always have a great time.

However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.

The real danger to Britain is a foreign policy that is isolationist in Europe and therefore weak in the rest of the world.

America is a powerful country. America is a great country. We have enormous resiliency. Any time we have had our back to the wall, we have come out a winner.

The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.

Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.

It isn't just that Obama's policies have failed; it's that he has essentially given up and is asking us to accept a lesser America going forward, as if resigned to the fatalistic belief that America has begun an inevitable and unavoidable decline.

We believe that from both a German and a Polish perspective, it is desirable for Great Britain to remain in the European Union.