UK, U.K. Quotes

There's a real gun culture in the U.K., for those who don't know. It's very real.

Brexit was, at its heart, about democracy and sovereignty.

This endless violence in the U.K. has to stop.

The idea that America is the best place in the world to start out poor, so long as you are willing to work hard, no longer seems to be true. One way of proving that is to ask how accurately your family's income when you were growing up predicted what your own would be. If the American dream were alive, your family's income would not predict your own that well…. Well, on that measure, America is now less the land of opportunity than France, than Germany, than Sweden, Canada, Finland, Norway and Denmark. The only other rich economy that the U.S. outscores in this respect is — you guessed it — the UK. Abolish the estate tax and America will be a serious contender for the bottom of the opportunity league.

People in the U.K. don't imagine what it is to live in extreme poverty here in Colombia or anywhere in the so-called Third World.

The thing is, Finland is such a small country. It only has a population of five million, which is half of London. There's nothing there. I just had to get out. The U.K. is the perfect place to come.

I've lived in London more or less permanently since the 1950s.

I do a lot of fights in the U.K., and the fans there, I have to admit probably, are the best in the world because they support their fighters.

I can't wait to get over to the U.K. for my first time ever. I've always heard how amazing the fans are over there - looking forward to experiencing it for myself.

At least from a national security standpoint, none of the problems the U.S. and U.K. face will become easier to solve if the U.K. is out of the E.U.; on the contrary, I fear that a 'Brexit' would only make our world even more dangerous and difficult to manage.

'Monty Python' was never on TV in the U.K. when I was a kid.

The Falklands things was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

As I have consistently argued, leaving the E.U. needs to be accompanied by a strong set of pro-enterprise policies to counteract any disruption: cut corporate taxes to make the U.K. an attractive destination for business and investment.

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.

I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for 'Homeland,' and I just found myself just wandering around London. There's nothing like it - the buildings, the architecture, the sense of history, the sense of culture - there really is nothing like it.

We love pop and the U.K. specifically seems to embrace pop and it's so cool.

Liberal Democrats will not rest until we have stopped Brexit.

I had so much fun working with the queens on 'Drag Race U.K!'

Someone's just told me the English are still trying to take over the United States - is that true?

As far as people I'd like to work with, the list is endless. I think to work with Steve McQueen would be amazing, and then some of the U.K. talent we have: Eddie Marsan, Olivia Colman, both of whom I have met and admired for a long time. We're very blessed in this country; there is so much talent for people to work with and learn from.

We should do everything we can to demonstrate to the U.K. the attractiveness of the E.U.

I did some good stuff over in the U.K., but I wasn't consistently working. For a while there, I was going, 'Do I really want to do this - should I go back to university?'

From the radio and the world wide web, to the steam engine and penicillin, for generations the U.K. has been a world-leader in science and research.

I love the U.K. It's so different over there from America, you know, the culture and stuff. It's pretty awesome.