If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.
Mikhail Gorbachev

We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe.
Richard Perle

I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory.
Pierre Laval

When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money.
Anthony Minghella

Were British protesters, armed with little more than a frisbee and a bag of plastic toy soldiers, really in danger of being shot by the US military in Gloucestershire?
Mark Thomas

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.
Nigel Short

The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads.
Ann Macbeth

It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are as determined upon self-government for India as they are themselves.
Stafford Cripps

The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.
Ben Nicholson

I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.
Martin Fleischmann

I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.
Martin Fleischmann

We have to withdraw from this undemocratic institution and ensure that these people no longer have any influence on British affairs. We would like to see other European nations do the same thing. I think that will happen.
Steve Blake

There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south.
Denis Kearney

The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.
William Falconer

The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.
Martin McGuinness

This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat.
Tom Paulin

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.
Martin McGuinness

In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.
William Hull

It all went back to problems we had talked about before, you know, such as the British not believing in formation bombing and not believing in daytime bombing.
Stuart Symington

I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.
Clare Short