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Appalled that Sir Salman Rushdie has been stabbed while exercising a right we should never cease to defend. Right now my thoughts are with Sir Salman Rushdie loved ones. We are all hoping Sir Salman Rushdie is okay.
Found on CNN 6 days ago
I want you to know how sad I am to be giving up the best job in the world.
Found on FOX News 1 month ago
I have appointed a new cabinet who will serve, as I will, until a new leader is in place, when the herd instinct moves, it moves.
Found on FOX News 1 month ago
But on the 25th anniversary of the handover, we simply can not avoid the fact that for some time now, Beijing has been failing to comply with its obligations. It's a state of affairs that threatens both the rights and freedoms of Hong Kong ' and the continued progress and prosperity of their home.
Found on CNN 1 month ago
I would just say to people in British Prime Minister Boris Johnson that this is something that America historically does and has to do, and that is to step up for peace and freedom and democracy, and if we let Putin get away with it, and just annex, conquer sizable parts of a free, independent, sovereign country, which is what he is poised to do... then the consequences for the world are absolutely catastrophic.
Found on CNN 1 month ago
Jackets on? Jackets off? Shall we take our clothes off?
Found on FOX News 1 month ago
I would just say to people in the United States that this is something that America historically does and has to do, and that is to step up for peace and freedom and democracy, and if we let Russian President Vladimir Putin get away with it, and just annex, conquer sizable parts of a free, independent, sovereign country, which is what Russian President Vladimir Putin is poised to do... then the consequences for the world are absolutely catastrophic.
Found on CNN 1 month ago
I think that reports of the death of democracy in the United States are grossly, grossly exaggerated. America is a shining city on a hill for me, and it will continue to be so, i think that the mere fact that Joe Biden has stepped up to the plate in the way that Joe Biden has, shows that the instincts of America are still very much in the right place.
Found on CNN 1 month ago
There was some weird and kind of unattractive scenes, weird ?
Found on CNN 1 month ago
I mean, looking from the outside, it was pretty weird, but I don't believe that American democracy is under serious threat. Far from it. I continue to believe that America is the greatest global guarantor of democracy and freedom.
Found on CNN 1 month ago
I think the great thing about democracy is that leaders are under scrutiny. And I do have, you say that I've got things going back home -- that's a good thing. I got people on my case, I got people making arguments.
Found on CNN 1 month ago
I think that the mere fact that Joe Biden has stepped up to the plate in the way that Joe Biden has, shows that the instincts of America are still very much in the right place.
Found on CNN 1 month ago
The price of backing down, the price of allowing Russian President Vladimir Putin to succeed, to hack off huge parts of Ukraine, to continue with Russian President Vladimir Putin program of conquest, that price will be far, far higher. Everybody here understands that.
Found on CNN 1 month ago
Putin is squandering his dwindling resources on this pointless and barbaric war. He is bankrolling his ego at the expense of both the Ukrainian and Russian people, we need to starve the Putin regime of its funding.
Found on FOX News 1 month ago
I've got to tell John Kirby, I think it's a big step backwards.
Found on CNN 1 month ago
I've got to tell you, I think it's a big step backwards, i've always believed in a woman's right to choose and I stick to that view, and that's why the UK has the laws that it does.
Found on CNN 1 month ago
It would be a catastrophe if Putin won. He'd love nothing more than to say, 'Let's freeze this conflict, let's have a cease-fire,'.
Found on FOX News 2 months ago
I think it's an extremely good, positive, conclusive, decisive result which enables us to move on, to unite and to focus on delivery (of services).
Found on FOX News 2 months ago
That is why I'm more certain than ever that Ukraine will win, ukraine will be free, and a sovereign Ukraine will rise again.
Found on CNN 3 months ago
We will continue on a remorseless mission to squeeze Russia, from the global economy, piece by piece. Day by day, and week by week.
Found on CNN 5 months ago
I've been broadly in favor of continuing artistic and scientific collaboration, but in the current circumstances, it's hard to see how even those can continue as normal.
Found on CNN 5 months ago
Now we see [Putin] for what he is — a bloodstained aggressor who believes in imperial conquest.
Found on FOX News 5 months ago
I know that this House will have great interest in the potential of cutting Russia out from Swift, as I've always said, that nothing is off the table. But for all these measures to be successful, it is vital that we have the unity of our partners, the unity in the G7 and other forum fora.
Found on FOX News 5 months ago
A vast invasion is underway by land by sea and by air, (Putin) has attacked a friendly country without any provocation and without any credible excuse.
Found on FOX News 5 months ago
Our mission is clear: diplomatically, politically, economically and eventually militarily, this hideous and barbaric venture of Vladimir Putin must end in failure.
Found on FOX News 5 months ago
It’s absolutely vital in this critical moment that President Putin understands that what he is doing is going to be a disaster for Russia, he is going to end up with ... a Russia that is more isolated, a Russia that has pariah status, no chance of holding football tournaments in a Russia that invades sovereign countries.
Found on FOX News 5 months ago
Today I have agreed with the Secretary General a package of support to strengthen further our collective security, sending troops, planes and ships to defend NATO from north to south.
Found on CNN 6 months ago
This package would send a clear message to the Kremlin – we will not tolerate their destabilising activity, and we will always stand with our NATO allies in the face of Russian hostility, i have ordered our Armed Forces to prepare to deploy across Europe next week, ensuring we are able to support our NATO allies.
Found on FOX News 6 months ago
There is no doubt that that would be a very potent weapon [ against Russia ]. I'm afraid it can only really be deployed with the assistance of United States though. Senior Russian lawmakers are in discussions about Senior Russian lawmakers.
Found on CNN 6 months ago
As COVID becomes endemic, we will need to replace legal requirements with advice and guidance, urging people with the virus to be careful and considerate of others.
Found on FOX News 7 months ago
We can return to Plan A in England and allow Plan B regulations to expire. As a result, from the start of Thursday next week, mandatory certification will end, organizations can, of course, choose to use the NHS COVID pass voluntarily, but we will end the compulsory use of COVID safety certification in England.
Found on FOX News 7 months ago
Nobody told me that what we were doing was … against the rules, when I went out into that garden I thought that I was attending a work event.
Found on FOX News 7 months ago
I think we’ve got to recognize that the pressure on our NHS, on our hospitals, is going to be considerable in the course the next couple of weeks, and maybe more.
Found on FOX News 7 months ago
I think the way forward for the country as a whole is to continue with the path that we’re on. We’ll will keep everything under review.
Found on FOX News 7 months ago
I'm afraid it is now clear that two doses of vaccine are simply not enough to give the level of protection we all need, no-one should be in any doubt : There is a tidal wave of Omicron coming.
Found on CNN 8 months ago
No-one should be in any doubt : There is a tidal wave of Omicron coming.
Found on CNN 8 months ago
So I think the idea that this is somehow a milder version of the virus, I think that’s something we need to set on one side and just recognize the sheer pace at which it accelerates through the population, so the best thing we can do is all get our boosters.
Found on FOX News 8 months ago
If the data goes the wrong way, if the alert level begins to rise, we will have no hesitation in putting on the brakes and delaying or reintroducing measures locally, regionally, or nationally, if everyone stays alert and follows the rules, we can control the virus, keep the rate of infection down and keep the number of infections down.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It is thanks to that massive collective effort to shield the NHS that we avoided an uncontrollable and catastrophic epidemic.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
So, if we want to move away from lockdown -- reopen schools, reopen workplaces, let people go shopping again -- we have to substitute other measures.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I am sorry I have been away from my desk for much longer than I would have liked.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I know it is tough and I want to get this economy moving as fast as I can but I refuse to throw away all the effort and the sacrifice of the British people and to risk a second major outbreak and huge loss of life and the overwhelming of the NHS.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
If this virus were a physical assailant, an unexpected and invisible mugger, which I can tell you from personal experience it is, then this is the moment when we are beginning to wrestle it to the floor.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
He'd tested positive so there was no doubt what he was dealing with. The word' shambles' comes to mind, what's the point of bodyguards when you can't have a doctor ? The Office of Prime Minister needs better protection.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
From what I gather -- and I wasn't there -- no one asked a doctor to mask up and physically examine him the whole time -- more than 10 days.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The Italians have a superb health care system. And yet their doctors and nurses have been completely overwhelmed by the demand, the Italian death toll is already in the thousands and climbing. Unless we act together, unless we make the heroic and collective national effort to slow the spread -- then it is all too likely that our own NHS will be similarly overwhelmed.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I want to thank the people of this country for turning out to vote in a December election, which we didn't want to call but which I think has turned out to be a historic election.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We could have a Conservative majority government which will get Brexit done and unleash Britain's potential, this election is our chance to end the gridlock but the result is on a knife-edge.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
We have ample time to get on and build a new free trade partnership, not just with the EU but with countries around the world.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
I opposed [automatic release] both in 2003 and 2008, and now that I am prime minister Im going to take steps to make sure that people are not released early when they commit... serious sexual, violent or terrorist offenses, i absolutely deplore that fact that this man was out on the streets... and we are going to take action against it.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It does not make sense for us, as a society, to be putting people convicted of terrorist offences, serious violent offences, out on early release.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
This country will never be cowed, or divided, or intimidated by this sort of attack.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
I ... want to pay tribute to the extraordinary bravery of those members of the public who physically intervened to protect the lives of others, for me they represent the very best of our country and I thank them on behalf of all of our country.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
It is a mistake to allow serious and violent criminals to come out of prison early, and it is very important that we get out of that habit and that we enforce the appropriate sentences for dangerous criminals, especially for terrorists.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
For me they represent the very best of our country and I thank them on behalf of all of our country.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
Boris Johnson added that the incident has been contained to the best of Boris Johnson knowledge. To the best of our knowledge the incident has been contained.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Anyone involved in this crime and these attacks will be hunted down and will be brought to justice.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I don't see how you can do a deal when you say you are going to be neutral or indifferent about the deal.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
One column a week was absorbing enough money to pay for what, five reporters ? the constant history of the Telegraph over the last 15 years has been cuts to editorial because the owners are insistent the company had to hit the profit target, And yet you've also got him sitting in the middle of your budget, this line item of £ 275,000 per year for one column a week.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Today should have been the day that Brexit was delivered and we finally left the EU.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
I pay tribute to those who have campaigned so passionately and tirelessly on this issue - your efforts have made all the difference.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
All such traders in human beings should be hunted down and brought to justice.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I have made clear since becoming Prime Minister and made clear to parliament again today, my view, and the Government's position, that a further extension would damage the interests of the UK and our EU partners, and the relationship between us.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
We've got a great new deal that takes back control — now parliament should get Brexit done on Saturday.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
People are tired of stasis, gridlock and waiting for change, and they don't want to wait any longer to get Brexit done.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
Any one of these risks we could cope with, but taken collectively they would be a massive challenge to the UK state and no one would choose to go down that route.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
I am afraid the security people didn't want me to come along tonight because they said the road was full of uncooperative crusties, they said there was some risk that I would be egged.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
But they should be under no illusions or misapprehensions, there will be no more dither or delay. On Oct. 31 we are going to get Brexit done.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
And I salute the spirit of compromise from MPs on all sides who have looked at what's on the table, reflected on what's best for their constituents, and decided they are willing to put aside their personal beliefs and back the deal that they know will get Brexit done.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
They are beginning to suspect that there are forces in this country that simply dont want Brexit delivered at all, and if they turn out to be right in that suspicion, then I believe there will be grave consequences for trust in our democracy.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We have made huge progress and I hope very much that in the course of the next few days we are going to get there.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
That's just the reality, because in the end, a sovereign, united country must have a single customs territory. When the UK withdraws from the EU that must be the state of affairs that we have.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
What we want to do is to get rid of the backstop, that is the most important thing.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
What we're coming up to now is, as it were, the critical moment of choice for us as friends and partners about how we proceed.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
We will obey the law, but we're confident we can come out on Oct. 31 and the best way to do that is to get a deal, that's why the surrender act is so damaging.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
I totally reject this anti-science pessimism. I am profoundly optimistic about the ability of new technology to serve as a liberator and remake the world wondrously.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
As the law currently stands, United Kingdoms leaves the EU on Oct. 31 come what may, but the exciting thing for us now is to get a good deal. And that is what we are working on, and to be honest, it is not made much easier by this kind of stuff in Parliament or in the courts.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Frankly we need to get on with Brexit, whether they voted to Leave or Remain they want to get this thing done by October 31 and that's what we're going to do.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
I have questions for one about whether it's right that the directors, or whoever, the board, should pay themselves large sums when businesses can go down the tubes like that, you need to have some system by which tour operators properly insure themselves against this kind of eventuality.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
I think the questions we've got to ask ourselves now : how can this thing be stopped from happening in the future ?
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
If we get this right, future generations will look back on climate change as a problem that we solved by determined global action and the prowess of technology, this innovative use of aid money benefits all of us and shows how we can use our aid budget to tackle climate change. The Ayrton Fund will back scientists and our world-leading tech industry – reducing emissions in the poorest countries with the help of our home-grown talent.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
We cannot just sit back and watch as priceless endangered species are wiped off the face of the earth by our own carelessness and criminality, we are ramping up UK efforts with a new action plan to save the natural world. And I'd like to see leaders in New York this week pledge to do the same.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
The UK is attributing responsibility with a very high degree of probability to Iran for the Aramco attacks. We think it very likely indeed that Iran was indeed responsible, we will be working with our American friends and our European friends to construct a response that tries to deescalate tensions in the Gulf region.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
Clearly if we are asked, either by the Saudis or by the Americans, to have a role then we will consider in what way we could be useful.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
It is a very difficult situation and obviously our thoughts are very much with the customers of Thomas Cook, the holiday makers who may now face difficulties getting home we will do our level best to get them home.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
We need to look at ways in which tour operators one way or another can protect themselves from such bankruptcies in future and clearly the systems that we have in place to make sure (they) don't in the end come to the taxpayer for help.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
We've moved a long way in seven weeks, what we've heard over the last seven weeks is considerable movement on the part of the EU on this question of the Withdrawal Agreement and particularly on the backstop.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
If the law is that Parliament can not be prorogued, then it must be recalled, and the advice to The Queen rescinded. If the PM breaks the law, then Vernon Bogdanor will be prosecuted and brought before the courts just like any other citizen.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
In recent weeks I've been torn between family loyalty and the national interest - it's an unresolvable tension & time for others to take on my roles as MP (Member of Parliament) & Minister.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
I think we will have the numbers, i think there will be enough people to get this over the line.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
Many colleagues have been incensed by some of the actions over the last week or so, i think there's a group of Conservatives who feel very strongly that now is a time where we have to put the national interest ahead of any threats to us personally or to our careers.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
I don't want an election. You don't want an election. Let's get on with the people's agenda.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
As always my door is open to all colleagues should you wish to discuss this or any other matter.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Iran should never under circumstances be allowed to get a nuclear weapon, there is clearly an opportunity now for Iran to come back into compliance with the nuclear deal... and to resume dialogue, as well as to cease its disruptive behavior in the region.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
I would say to our friends in the EU if they don't want a no-deal Brexit then we've got to get rid of the backstop from the treaty, if Donald Tusk doesn't want to go down as Mr No Deal then I hope that point will be borne in mind by him, too.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
This is not the way to proceed, apart from everything else, those who support the tariffs are at risk of incurring the blame for the downturn in the global economy, irrespective of whether or not that is true.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
If Donald Tusk doesn't want to go down as Mr No Deal then I hope that point will be borne in mind by him, too.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
There are all sorts of people who will take any excuse at all to interfere with trade and to frustrate trade deals and I don't want to see that.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
Clearly the state of global trade, I'm very worried about the way it's going. The growth of protectionism, of tariffs, that we're seeing, there are all sorts of people, who will take any excuse at all to interfere with free trade and to frustrate trade deals, and I don't want to see that.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Can the cost for Britain of a hard Brexit - because Britain will be the main victim - be offset by the United States of America? No. And even if it were a strategic choice it would be at the cost of a historic vassalisation of Britain.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
The UK generally has a great record on fighting measles, but for the first time we're suddenly going in the wrong direction, i'm afraid people have just been listening to that superstitious mumbo-jumbo on the internet, all that anti-vax stuff, and thinking that the MMR vaccine is a bad idea. That's wrong, please get your kids vaccinated.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
It's not just the right thing for them, but also of course its the right thing for the whole population, it might not be your kid that gets it, it could be somebody else's.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
It is the most powerful reminder that police officers up and down the country put themselves at risk every single day to keep us safe, they have my absolute support.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The people of Northern Ireland have now been without an executive and assembly for two years and six months – put simply this is much, much too long, northern Ireland's citizens need and deserve the Executive to get up and running again as soon as possible, so that locally-accountable politicians can take decisions on the issues that really matter to local people.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Do I think that MPs are now psychologically ready to get this thing over the line? ... Yes I do.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Relations between the UK and the U.S. are incredibly important but if you are the leader of great multi-racial, multi-cultural society you simply cannot use that kind of language about sending people back to where they came from, so it is totally unacceptable.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
(Darroch) said that what somebody had relayed to him had certainly been a factor in his resignation, i think unfortunately what I said on that TV debate was misrepresented to Kim.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
What has changed now is that there is a different approach to the negotiations, a new optimism about what we can do, a new spirit of determination to come properly out of the EU and to get a fantastic deal, why can't we rely on the common sense and goodwill of both parties to get this done?
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We've got to find a way of taxing the internet giants on their income, because at the moment it is simply unfair.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I cant dissent from that, when it comes to the context of what the president has said about the Brexit deal, I find it hard to disagree.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I think it's deeply unfair that high street businesses are paying tax through the nose... whereas the internet giants, the FAANGs — Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google — are paying virtually nothing, we've got to find a way of taxing the internet giants on their income, because at the moment it is simply unfair.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We should not be doing anything that will deter cooperation with our most valuable intelligence partners, the Five Eyes.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
If we fail again, if we kick the can down the road on 31st October, if we continue to delay, if we treat this as a fake deadline, just yet another rigmarole, then I think the voters will be very frustrated indeed, and I think that our party, the Conservative Party, which I fought for a very long time across this country, I think that we will not easily recover.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I think it would be very bizarre if the EU should decide on their own... if they decided to impose tariffs on goods coming from the UK it would be... a return to Napoleon's continental system.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I do not talk about stuff involving my family, my loved ones, and there's a very good reason for that. That is that, if you do, you drag them into things that, really, is, in a way that is not fair on them.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
My pledge is to come out of the EU at Halloween on 31 October.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The way to get our friends and partners to understand how serious we are is finally, I'm afraid, to abandon the defeatism and negativity that has enfolded us in a great cloud for so long and to prepare confidently and seriously for a WTO or no-deal outcome.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Let me tell you, there are abundant, abundant technical fixes that can be introduced to make sure that you don't have to have checks at the border.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We have a choice to make now, and that means choosing between options that actually exist, it is very painful to vote for this deal. But I hope we can now work together to remedy its defects.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The euro is a calamitous project, it will limp on with sclerotic growth rates, it will eventually blow up but I wouldn't care to bet when.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I am not by any means an ultra-eurosceptic. In some ways, I am a bit of a fan of the European Union. If we did not have one, we would invent something like it.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The EU would be a lobster ... because the EU, by the very way it works, encourages its participating members to order the lobster at the joint meal because they know that the bill is going to be settled by everybody else - normally by the Germans.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I'm rather pro-European, actually. I certainly want a European community where one can go and scoff croissants, drink delicious coffee, learn foreign languages and generally make love to foreign women.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I always thought it was extraordinary that we should agree to write that entire cheque before having a final deal. In getting a good deal, money is a great solvent and a great lubricant.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Conservatives must deliver Brexit by 31st October or we risk Brexit Party votes delivering Corbyn to No 10.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Brexit is becoming soft to the point of disintegration.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Take out, excise, surgically remove the backstop, OK? thats the problem, thats the lobster pot, thats the trap that keeps us locked in the customs union and means we have this terrible Hobsons choice between, as it were, sacrificing Northern Ireland orremaining subject to the E.U. without having any say in the E.U.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It is not the right way forward, there's a better deal to be done, there's no point in leaving European Union if you end up being run by European Union.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
To present the nation with a choice between two deeply unattractive outcomes, vassalage and chaos, is a failure of British statecraft on a scale unseen since the Suez crisis.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Given that the reality of Brexit has turned out to be so far from what was once promised, the democratic thing to do is to give the public the final say.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The Sun's not for me to say what they should be doing in the UK.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I've had very good discussions with my French, German and Dutch counterparts, many other counterparts here, explaining to them that this is the way we get that deep and special partnership with Europe.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's really kind of irrelevant to what we're trying to do, and it certainly doesn't express the opinion of the British people that I've met.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Brexit should be about opportunity and hope, that dream is dying, suffocated by needless self-doubt.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We are truly headed for the status of a colony - and many will struggle to see the economic or political advantage of that particular arrangement.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Imagine President Trump doing Brexit, president Trump ’d go in bloody hard … There ’d be all sorts of breakdowns, all sorts of chaos. Everyone would think President Trump ’d gone mad. But actually you might get somewhere. It’s a very, very good thought.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Project Fear is really working on them. They’re terrified of this nonsense. It’s all mumbo jumbo.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Imagine Trump doing Brexit, he'd go in bloody hard ... There'd be all sorts of breakdowns, all sorts of chaos. Everyone would think he'd gone mad. But actually you might get somewhere. It's a very, very good thought.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Imagine Donald Trump doing Brexit, i have become more and more convinced that there is method in Donald Trump madness.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
What they don't want is friction at the border, they don't want any interruption of the economy. So they're sacrificing all the medium - and long-term gains out of fear of short term disruption, they're terrified of this nonsense. It's all total mumbo jumbo.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We will continue to tighten the squeeze on some of the oligarchs who surround Putin.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
You throw a stone in Kensington and you'll hit an oligarch, some of them are close to Putin and some of them aren't.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I want to stress that that does not mean we are in any sense not going to be working with the Americans.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's totally untried and would make it very, very difficult to do free trade deals, if you have the new customs partnership, you have a crazy system whereby you end up collecting the tariffs on behalf of the EU at the UK frontier.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If they do get a nuclear weapon, you're going to get an arms race in the Middle East, you're going to have the Saudis wanting one, the Egyptians wanting one, the Emiratis. It's already a very, very dangerous state at the moment, we don't want to go down that road. There doesn't seem to me at the moment to be a viable military solution.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
At this moment Britain is working alongside the Trump administration and our French and German allies to ensure that they are.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
...At this moment Britain is working alongside the Trump administration and our French and German allies to ensure that they are, i am sure of one thing: every available alternative is worse. The wisest course would be to improve the handcuffs rather than break them.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
On so many of the world's foreign policy challenges the UK and U.S. are in lockstep, the UK, U.S., and European partners are also united in our effort to tackle the kind of Iranian behavior that makes the Middle East region less secure - its cyber activities, its support for groups like Hezbollah, and its dangerous missile program, which is arming Houthi militias in Yemen.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
One of the key things we're doing is looking again at ... how we strengthen our collective response to the kind of hybrid attacks that so many NATO allies are experiencing from Russia.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
What we decided ... was that we were going to set up a G7 group that would look at Russian malign behavior in all its manifestations - whether it's cyber warfare, whether it's disinformation, assassination attempts, whatever it happens to be, and collectively try to call it out.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We accept that Iranian behavior has been disruptive in the region, we accept the president has some valid points that need to be addressed, but we believe they are capable of being addressed (inside the deal).
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We accept that Iranian behavior has been disruptive in the region, we accept the president (Trump) has some valid points that need to be addressed but we believe they are capable of being addressed (inside the deal).
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
President Mnangagwa has been in power for 150 days and while Zimbabwe has made impressive progress, there is still much to do, that's why Britain, the Commonwealth and the wider international community will do everything it can in supporting Zimbabwe on its path of reform.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The Zimbabwe government must deliver the free and fair elections the people of Zimbabwe deserve and which it has promised.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The UK stands ready in friendship to support a Zimbabwe that fully embraces the rule of law, human rights and economic reform.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There can be no doubt what was used and there remains no alternative explanation about who was responsible – only Russia has the means, motive and record.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Very disappointed to hear Burmese @Reuters journalists Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone are now to face trial, reiterate my calls for their release: Burmese authorities must show their commitment to media freedom.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We have evidence that Russia has been investigating delivery of nerve agents and has been creating and stockpiling Novichok.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
[ Trump ] was voted into office by millions of Americans – not bad people, but on the whole good and kindly people with whom we are connected by old ties of blood and friendship and with whom we have the single most extraordinary economic relationship.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
A process that has been stalled for years, if not decades, could see some progress. And everybody is very interested to see what the United States comes up with.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
My point was that I disagreed with the Iranian view that training journalists was a crime, not that I wanted to lend any credence to Iranian allegations that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been engaged in such activity.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We can spend an awfully long time going over lots of stuff that I've written over the last 30 years ... all of which in my view have been taken out of context, but never mind, but some serious issues call us today.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Andrea Leadsom offers the zap, the drive, and the determination essential for the next leader of this country, she has specialized in the EU question ... and will be therefore well-placed to help forge a great post-Brexit future for Britain and Europe.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
She has specialized in the EU question ... and will be therefore well-placed to help forge a great post-Brexit future for Britain and Europe.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
The economy is in good hands, most sensible people can see that Bank of England governor Mark Carney has done a superb job – and now that the referendum is over, he will be able to continue his work without being in the political firing-line.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
If we don't vote to leave tomorrow we will remain locked in the back of the car, driven in an uncertain direction, frankly, to a place we don't want to go and perhaps by a driver who doesn't speak the very best of English.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically, the EU is an attempt to do this by different methods. But fundamentally what is lacking is the eternal problem, which is that there is no underlying loyalty to the idea of Europe.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
It's a question of democracy, i would like a situation where the government can fulfill its pledges to the people.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
What is happening at the moment is being done completely without the consent of the British people.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically, dEMOCRATIC VOID.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
If you want an example of EU foreign policy-making on the hoof, and of the EU's pretensions to running a defense policy that have caused real trouble, then look at what has happened in Ukraine.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
For the last few years I have said clearly if we didn't get reform we should be prepared to walk away. I think we now have a golden opportunity to shrug off a regulatory legislative burden that is profoundly undemocratic, we have got a once in a lifetime opportunity, which will not come again, to strike a new series of relationships, free trade deals with the growth economies around the world, whilst maintaining ... our free trade advantages with the European Union.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Let us lift our eyes to the horizon and take a once in a lifetime opportunity. Ignore the scaremongers, we are bigger, better and greater than they pretend.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Both Boris and Cameron have described this to me -- Boris claims he won the wrestling match and Cameron claims he won.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
The PM's suggestion was modest, and sensible. It has been recklessly disregarded. This country could have a viable and exciting future outside the present EU arrangements. If we are going to stay, we need reform; and if the Danes can have their special circumstances recognized, so can Britain.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Large parts of the media, large parts of the media will remain resolutely skeptical, if not hostile... suddenly, as the event itself draws near, their mood will change and it will be as if the sun has come out.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
The figures teased out of their report on the fall in domestic and even long-haul connectivity show that as a nation, by expanding Heathrow, we would merely be investing in decline, their report very clearly shows that a third runway will fail both London and the UK on every level.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
The security services are trying to keep us safe, they can not conceivably be blamed for their actions in trying to prevent people from committing absolutely sick atrocities against the British public and indeed against innocent people in Syria and Iraq.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
She thought in particular that we in Britain should be less dependent on Russian hyrdrocarbons and she thought we should get on with seeking alternative sources, her general anxiety was that Putin, if unchallenged and unchecked, would continue to expand his influence in the perimeter of what was the Soviet Union. I was very, very struck by that.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
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