Barack Obama Quotes

We are not leaving the EU, we are rejoining the rest of the world.

Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.

I do not want Britain to turn its back on Europe or the rest of the world.

However painful or regrettable Brexit may be, it will not stop the E.U. as it moves to the future; we need to move forward.

The Tories must stop focusing on their ideological obsession with a hard Brexit and their internal party divisions and start focusing on what is best for our country and our economy. Their absurd proposal that the U.K. should become the E.U.'s tariff collector is neither practical nor palatable across the Channel.

I have spent more time thinking about European issues than even I can imagine - so many years thinking about Britain and the way our influence around the world was amplified through the European Union.

Whether it is a hard or soft Brexit, there are opportunities here for us to be had.

Leaving the European Union really does give us a chance as a country to become more outward-looking, to become more competitive, and to deepen our links with our partners right across the world.

Barak Obama got involved, I don't know if Brexit was through a friendship with David Cameron.

But I do think that Brexit, an exit of Britain from the European Union, would trigger real pressure on the United Kingdom.

Britain is leaving and has de facto left the European Union; however, it has not withdrawn from its special relationship with the United States and I believe that the UK's relations with Russia depend on Britain's special relationship with the United States rather than on its presence in or absence from the European Union.

Donald Trump is an American presidential nominee who was describing Russia in terms that they haven't heard almost ever. And so there is a belief that Donald Trump would be a collaborative, willing and I think perhaps quite able partner.

It would be helpful if everybody would focus on getting the right outcome from Brexit. An aggressive stand by the EU will only feed into those who promote the narrative of "better off out".

Britain is China's best partner in the West.

The British prime minister will want to have a strong and positive relationship with European leaders always.

David Cameron says he wants to keep Britain in the EU, but his tactics are so divisive that, if he gets what he wants it will be at the price of huge ill-will in Europe; or if he doesn't, it will be at the price of increased anti-EU sentiment in his own party and in British society.

I think, clearly, we got to work closely with China to resolve the serious problems we have, and I worry about Putin and his military adventurism in the Crimea and the Ukraine.

Assertions that Russia has undermined efforts to strengthen partnerships on the European continent do not correspond to the facts.

I would like a UK fully engaged in Europe, but I can't decide in place of the British. I see that for the moment they want to be more in retreat.

We view South Africa as one of our closest strategic partners in the developing world and in the African continent.

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

We are convinced that Turkey would be a useful member of the European Union.

I am not a British isolationist. I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too.

The United States has some people in Europe with whom we disagree on this matter and a large number of people in Europe, including governments in Europe, with whom we agree.