I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.
The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.
People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.
I am very pro-royal. Britain without them would be a sadder place.
I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain.
However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.
Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
I'm still a Welsh girl at heart so I'm staying in the U.K. for the Olympics, it's such an exciting time for Britain so it's amazing to be a part of it.
The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.
There's so much cynicism around in Britain, especially in the press. The American press might be naive, but at least you feel as if they're on your side.
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.
In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.
I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.
One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army.
We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened.
Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.
I always wanted to work on films, and when I was starting in television in this country, in Great Britain, there really wasn't any film to be made.
Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.
