Arundhati Bhattacharya Quotes

The arguments in the Brexit vote and in the American presidential campaign are about the same. In a friendly way, may I also give some advice to the American people to make the right choice when the moment comes.

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.

Brexit is not only not just about left and right. Brexit is about expertise.

I don't think Brexit is going to help people in Britain.

Leaving the E.U. would mean the 'Guernseyfication' of the U.K., which would then be a little country on the world scale. It would isolate itself and become a trading post and arbitration place at Europe's border.

Brexit is the best thing to happen for Russia, for America, for Germany, and for democracy.

Brexit has really broken a taboo. The Brits have shown us that you can leave the European Union, and you can come out better.

In retrospect, the populist panic may have been overblown. Regarding Brexit, for example, the shock exaggerated its meaning. Because it was so unexpected, it became a sensation.

The issue for me is not just Brexit. It is beyond Brexit - how you conduct politics and the veering towards populism and English nationalism.

There are also parties in Germany that support leaving the E.U. Everyone can see in the example of Britain what consequences that would have.

We cannot allow Brexit to be driven by narrow and divisive Tory ideology.

I don't think the U.K. should leave the E.U. I think it would be a disaster for our economy, and it would lead to a decade of economic and political uncertainty at a time when the tectonic plates of global success are moving.

I find it unspeakably sad that the United Kingdom has voted to leave the European Union.

The U.K. matters with or without being a member of the E.U.

I've never been one to say that Britain was joining a happy band of brothers.

Unilateralism and isolationism are ideological twins.

The United States, of course, is determined to diversify Europe to such an extent that it becomes a meaningless entity.

What is modernity? Is it defending foreign interests, or defending interests of our country?

I think Brexit is disappointing from an economic perspective.

Do not let anyone get away with the argument that tearing our country out of one of the most successful partnerships in our history is somehow a great act of patriotism. It is not.

Even if the Brits decide to remain, we will have to avoid a contagion on other countries.

What's important is that we do this in the right timescale to get the right deal for the U.K. We shouldn't invoke Article 50 immediately.

Britain's withdrawal from the E.U., like Donald Trump's proposal to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico, is based on a false belief in self-reliance.

I can't foretell the future, but I don't believe that the act of leaving the European Union would make our economic position worse; I think it would make it better.

I have specifically argued that we need to change our relationship with the European Union by fundamentally reforming not just our relationship but the European Union itself.