Martin Jacques Quotes

When will Labour learn that you cannot build Jerusalem in Brussels.

I like Tony Blair.

We believe that government in Britain should be working to restore our reputation on the international stage after Iraq and engage better within Europe.

It's true that the question of Iraq divided Europe.

Why take sides in the fractious squabbles of a quarrelsome continent?

Although I've been living in the British Virgin Islands for some time now, I have never stopped caring passionately about the U.K. and its great people.

Conservative and Labour governments have arguably championed British rights in Brussels so ostentatiously in order to deflect public attention away from their deference to Washington.

Brexit is a major concern for us, and it should be a major concern for all of us who live in the U.K. and operate out of the U.K.

I remember being told after the 1992 general election that Labour could never win a majority in Britain ever again.

Brexit stops Britain from being Great Britain.

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

The whole Brexit saga is, in my view, one big, terrifying leap in the dark.

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 love the fact that James Ivory made films about Britain, made 'Howards End' and 'The Remains of the Day,' or that Paul Thomas Anderson made 'Phantom Thread.' They're about Britishness, but they're from an American perspective. And I actually think they're fantastic in the way that they understand Britishness.

When it comes to whether Britain should remain in the European Union, almost all political parties and traditions - Labour, the Greens, Liberal Democrats, the SNP, Plaid Cymru, and half of the Tory Party - agree that we are better off in Europe.

I think all that we would know of America back home is foreign policy, and maybe the snippets of the madness of political culture.

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.

Washington is agonizingly slow at learning from its mistakes. Especially in the Middle East.

The closer we come to the Greek tragedy that is Brexit, the more horrifying it is to behold.

The U.K. is leaving the E.U. but not Europe.

Boris Johnson's experience in life is telling a lot of porkies about the European Union in Brussels and then becoming prime minister.

I just can't stand Tony Blair.

My constituents support Israel.

As far as the Yanukovych administration is concerned, you will see, if you do any fact-checking, that I was the person that negotiated the framework which is based upon which Ukraine is now a part of Europe. That was my role. That's what I did. And when it was completed, I left.

I rage when Boris Johnson is more interested in sucking up to Donald Trump than standing up for British values of decency, equality and respect.