British Forces Quotes

#1. My Mother is Swedish and my Father is Scottish, he played for Charlton in the 1960's and was in the Army, he captained the British forces team. We then moved to S.A. because a lot of players did that at the time.

Richard Gough

#2. The people in the southern provinces have no interest whatsoever to see British forces leave because they're providing security, stability, structure, and relations have always been good ... really between the British forces and the local Iraqis in this area,

Hoshyar Zebari

#3. Of course the decision to commit British forces in Iraq was, for many MPs, a wrenching choice. However, our responsibility in the face of a growing ISIS threat is not to be paralysed by history, but to learn the correct lessons from it.

Douglas Alexander

#4. The most foreign fighters in Iraq are wearing British and American uniforms. The level of self-delusion is bordering frankly on the racist. The vast majority of the people of Iraq are against the occupation of Iraq by the American and British forces.

George Galloway

#5. Here was a manifestation of a huge, historic British folly, repeated over many centuries including the twenty-first: the adoption of gesture strategy, committing small forces as an earnest of good intentions, heedless of their gross inadequacy for the military purpose at hand.

Max Hastings

#6. I expect Europe's top-level domain,. eu, to become similarly as important as dot-com.

Viviane Reding

#7. I found out I was pregnant seven days after my wedding. I was on honeymoon with my family.

Bryce Dallas Howard

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

Theresa May

#9. The truth is that the free movement of goods, people, and money that developed under British hegemony between 1870 and 1913 - the first episode of globalization - was made possible, in large part, by military might rather than market forces.

Ha-Joon Chang

#10. It was a dismal mismatch: Hitler had been single-mindedly building up his forces in the 1930s, while British defence spending was at historical lows. The Luftwaffe entered the Battle of Britain with

Tim Harford

#11. The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all had accepted the need for organization and order in civilian life.

Bill Alexander

#12. Charles Kiss is a legendary James Bond-style British spy. And McGrath is the young idealist who is given the task of following in his footsteps. It's a mission that forces McGrath to question everything he thought he believed in.

Peter Milligan

#13. I don't see any absolute biological limit on human age.

Craig Venter

#14. If you're going to die, then die. If you're going to live, then fight.

Emilie Autumn

#15. With respect to the situation in Al-Faw, the British told big lies. In Al-Faw, our forces' positions remained in place.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#16. I am very proud I was part of the IRA in Derry and involved in repelling the designs of the British state forces against people who were being treated as second- and third-class citizens.

Martin McGuinness

#17. I didn't know, I didn't know, I didn't know.

Jean Rhys

#18. Although socialism is widely held by the establishment to be outdated, the things that are most popular in British society today are little pockets of socialism, where areas of life have been excluded from the crude operation of market forces and are protected for the benefit of the community

Tony Benn