I mean yeah I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.

Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

What I hope is in five years' time I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked but it has worked.

I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.

One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents letters diaries grainy video weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity.

The long-established and noble rule of Law one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free health care? Uggh.

I think the British people are very very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state.

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression all the time that I lived there that they do not want to be happy they want to be right.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality please give them back.

For over 30 years the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard fast and specific decision.

Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves even if it means chaos and confusion.

Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents and immigrants like them were known as '£10 poms.' Back then the Australian government was trying to get educated British people and Canadians - to be honest educated white people - to come and live in Australia.

My hobbies are cooking and gardening especially growing orchids. I love soccer my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.

If the euro zone doesn't come up with a comprehensive vision of its own future you'll have a whole range of nationalist xenophobic and extreme movements increasing across the European Union. And frankly questions about the British debate on EU membership will just be a small sideshow compared to the rise of political populism.

I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with a positive vision for the future of the European Union. A future in which Britain wants and should want to play a committed and active part.

It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control.

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press but when things go wrong and there has been outright illegality there should be proper accountability.