210 Quotes filtered by policy
A substantial extension of public ownership is an essential pre-requisite of greater equality of earned income.
Roy Jenkins 1952
Category: Equality, Nationalisation
With this step, the Union is finally overcoming the division of the European continent into east and west. The new and bigger Union will ... find a place in the world as a Europe of peace, solidarity and democracy.
Gerhard Schroeder 16/04/2003
On the signing of the Treaty of Accession for the Eastern European countries to the EU
Category: EU Enlargement
It is only today that the Berlin Wall has truly fallen.
Jan Peter Balkenende 16/04/2003
Category: EU Enlargement
This text will create an even less democratic EU, full of politicians and even more remote from the ordinary voter.
David Heathcoat-Amory 2003
Category: European Constitution
Of particular importance to us is the recognition... that what we want is a Europe of nations, not a federal super-state.
Tony Blair 2003
Category: European Constitution
We will have a clearer, simpler Union which citizens will be able to understand.
Romano Prodi 20/06/2003
Category: European Constitution
Despite all the hard work we have put into this, the text that is now before us simply lacks vision and ambition.
Romano Prodi 28/05/2003
Category: European Constitution
It is not clear which impending catastrophe will be worse: the collapse of the euro or the transformation of the European Union into an economic equivalent of the former Soviet Union.
Wilhelm Hankel
Category: European Union , Euro (Single Currency)
We apologise for lack of scenery.
Anonymous 2001
Announcement on a Connex train stuck in a tunnel in Sussex
Category: Railways
Our text must be adhered to as closely as possible. Europeans expect a constitution, so let's give it to them.
Valery Giscard D'Estaing 2003
Category: European Constitution
I don't recognise the term 'bog standard'but what I do recognise is the critical importance of honesty about what some children, in some schools have had to put up with over the years, and the need to do something about it.
David Blunkett 2001
In respomnse to Alastair Campbell's description of comprehensives as 'bog standard'.
Category: Education
I think we explored the further reaches of 'for better or for worse' than some other married couples.
Mary Archer 2001
On her marriage to Jeffrey
Category: Marriage
Let's give the terrorists a fair trial and then hang them.
Gary Hart 09/2001
Category: Capital Punishment, Terrorism, War on Terror
We can live in a world with airy-fairy civil liberties and believe the best in everybody and they destroy us. But that is not the world we live in.
David Blunkett 2001
Defending a Bill allowing police to hold suspected foreign terrorists in indefinite detention
Category: Civil Liberties, War on Terror
I went to Rio for the day once, not so much for environmentally friendly reasons but more to help British industry to export weapons of mass destruction. I regret that I was unsuccessful in securing the necessary contract.
Neil Hamilton 04/1994
Category: Trade
Until now their line has been that the Tories are incapable of doing anything about poverty, and aren't interested in doing it in the first place. By contrast, Labour says, we are also incapable of doing anything about poverty, but would dearly love to do something. If we knew what.
Simon Hoggart
Category: Poverty
Blair goes one way, Brown goes the other way and bang goes the third way.
Michael Howard 09/06/2003
After Gordon Brown's announcement to delay a Euro referendum
Category: Euro (Single Currency), Third Way
For six years, support in principle from the chancellor has been talk and no trousers.
Matthew Taylor MP 09/06/2003
On Gordon's Brown decision to postpone a Euro referendum
Category: Euro (Single Currency)
Is it really necessary for Mr Brown to ask the British people, even in principle, to slash their throats a second time?
Sir Peter Tapsell 09/06/2003
A reference to Gordon Brown's Euro announcement. Tapsell voted against joining the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) in 1990.
Category: Euro (Single Currency)
