British Prime Minister Quotes

I think that Sir Winston Churchill, in the period that the Germans occupied the Channel Ports, when the whole war hung in issue, fulfilled a role, which is as great as any role in our history.

David Cameron was a good-looking chap in his day!

[Winston] Churchill is a Jew-ridden, half American, drunkard.

Churchill, he is a great man. He is, of course, our enemy and has always been the enemy of Communism, but he is an enemy one must respect, an enemy one likes to have.

Churchill didn't dance around the Nazis; he called it fascism.

Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.

You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler.

[Theresa May] is very sensible and I think that's a good thing at this point in time.

Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive.

[Theresa May] is a very intelligent woman but I don't see much to fear.

Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.

Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

I respected [Margaret Thatcher] enormously. She had great integrity in that respect.

British politics, as the world knows, is a joke. Yet it's rarely funny.

To a Brit of my generation, one of the most objectionable things about [Margaret] Thatcher is her falsity. She is a total construct. For one thing, she had a made-over accent.

I have known Boris Johnson since 2004. I wrote the first big profile about him in the American press. I've been edited by him when he ran the Spectator. I know his family.

...Then it said on the news, "And tonight the Prime Minister has just got to Number Ten." I looked down at Jas and said, "Ooer." Meaning he'd got to number ten on the snogging scale. And then we both laughed like loons. Vati just looked at us like we were mad.

I thought he [Winston Churchill] was a young man of promise, but it appears he was a young man of promises.

What is it we are hating? It goes beyond politics. I suppose that my fascination with [Margaret Thatcher] is not just with her political record but with her as a phenomenon.

Churchill is the best man the British have even if he is drunk half the time.

Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.

I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.