Nigel Hamilton
Related With ministers, with prime ministers, we've always had good relationships. GEORGE YEO GEORGE ORWELL The IOC knows that (British Prime Minister) Tony Blair had written to IOC members to offer to meet t... BERTRAND DELANOE MARGARET THATCHER EAMON DE VALERA JAMES C. HUMES JAMES C. HUMES I love English. I learned it from the speeches of Winston Churchill. MAURICE DRUON New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either... CAROL MOSELEY BRAUN TOM HODGKINSON On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony... J. D. VANCE DAVID CAMERON It was October 15, 1986. Keith had stayed home from school with his dad to help with the first full ... MARILYN ADAMS Tony Blair is a war criminal, and I think he should be tried as a war criminal. Then I see Bono and ... LARRY MULLEN, JR. The War Department in Washington briefly weighed more ambitious schemes to relieve the Americans on ... HAMPTON SIDES Both the Prime Minister [Tony Blair] and President Bush have committed themselves to a vital role in... JACK STRAW JEAN DUJARDIN HENRY L. STIMSON ROBERT DALLEK [Rhys-Jones was recorded calling Prime Minister Tony Blair] President Blair ... number one on the to... CAMILLA BOWLES [Rhys-Jones was recorded calling Prime Minister Tony Blair] President Blair ... number one on the to... CAMILLA PARKER BOWLES NANETTE L. AVERY DORIS LESSING All of us from President Chirac to the president of China expressed sympathy to Tony Blair and Brita... JOSE MANUEL BARROSO Grown-up politicians talk to each other across party lines. Over the last few weeks I have had lengt... NICK CLEGG ALEXANDER HAIG Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table. IAN BOTHAM ROBERT MUGABE The confidence that Tony had [in] me out there ... he had a lot of guys to choose from, ABRAHAM NUNEZ TERRY WOGAN BORIS JOHNSON MICHAEL MORIARTY BILL BRUFORD DAN SAVAGE People forget that Omar Bradley went all around World War II with a big black poodle named Beau. And... STANLEY COREN KATE MIDDLETON KATE MIDDLETON CHRISTOPHER FOWLER WINSTON CHURCHILL TOM MORRIS She is a great player by every means. When she was driving in, I had good help and I stayed down on ... ANDEE WHITAKER Yet, some things do not change. Overall, designers have stayed with techniques that work—in differ... STEVEN A. SEIDMAN RONALD REAGAN The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, unders... JEFFREY SACHS Tony Blair is one of the most significant world leaders of the modern era. He has a remarkable story... SONNY MEHTA When my marriage broke up... I had just put on 45 pounds for my 'Shall We Dance?' character.... LISA ANN WALTER [In August 1966 the Post 's owner, Katharine Graham, discussed the war with a writer in line to take... KATHARINE GRAHAM TONY DUNGY ARTHUR L. HERMAN SARA SHERIDAN In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I late... A. E. VAN VOGT I had a cat I could not see,PEGGY RATHMANN When I moved to Los Angeles, aged 54, I printed out Winston Churchill's phrase, 'Never, neve... ALAN DALE ROBERT MUGABE Tony made the great pass out to me, I just had to put it in the net. JAMIE LUNDMARK [A voice coach and a linguistics expert had interesting things to say, but, really, this was a good ... BRIAN SEWELL DONALD TRUMP I get to deal with presidents and prime ministers and - and employees from tellers on up. And I love... JAMIE DIMON HELMUT SCHMIDT I promise, through my conscience and honor, to fulfill faithfully the obligations of the post of pri... JOSE LUIS RODRIGUEZ ZAPATERO ROBERT WINSTON Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercial... ETHAN SUPLEE RONALD REAGAN Britain, along with the U.S.A., is war weary, and after the travesty of Iraq and Afghanistan, has gr... PAUL CONROY HILLARY CLINTON BARUJ BENACERRAF MARTIN MCGUINNESS [After Clinton's afternoon calls to British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Schroeder, the official sa... SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC He had a very exciting career and a wonderful sense of humor that he shared with his family. He did ... DARLENE JACKSON I showed empirically that in the general election those crossover voters stayed with the candidate t... DAVID OLSON Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents h... JAMES MEADE Nigel met with the show's producers and decided he has taken Dennis as far as he can. NIGEL HARMAN DAVID NAUGHTON BARBARA W. TUCHMAN HARPER LEE If I had stayed with him, we probably would've been fine, SCOTT WILLIAMSON I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expediti... BOB GRAHAM LARRY HOLMES I wish we had met away from all these battles. I wish we had met in a land of peace without social c... JIHAD ELTABEY I had the opportunity to do a movie with Roger Daltrey of The Who. In the movie, I played a guitar s... DRAKE BELL ADLAI STEVENSON Tony had that problem with throwing his bat, HARMON KILLEBREW In the early 1980s, I got into a war with my management - they just kept on suing me and I lost ever... MEAT LOAF CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS TRACY CHAPMAN Better to make prime ministers out of prisoners than prisoners out of prime ministers. LORD CARADON LAPO ELKANN GEORGE MICHAEL I had great restarts all day, but Tony got me and I got bogged down. BORIS SAID The problems he had were in the outfield. When you first saw him out there, 'How is he ever going to... HARMON KILLEBREW Harold emphasized to me the importance of including my own salary in any cost projections that I had... MICHAEL JONES ELIHU ROOT PRINCESS DIANA YASSER ARAFAT She had me in stitches most of the time, while commiserating over the 'joys' of operating a theater.... JULANE SULLIVAN I'm not a Tony Blair impersonator. MICHAEL SHEEN It was wild, but I think fact both teams playing great defense had a lot to do with it. JOE MARINO By mid-afternoon, all but one of the students had been sent home from the hospital. One student is b... BETTI CADMUS WARREN ELLIS The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I&... W. AVERELL HARRIMAN
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Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war. 
I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchi... 
Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America ente... 
Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his ... 
Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his ... 
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It is so important for European countries, post-Second World War, to prove that they can be successf... 
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As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the poss... 
To be sure, Kennedy did not discount the importance of words in rallying the nation to meet its fore... 
Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver. 
I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning. 
I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchil... 
Is it not obvious that Britain, under the regime of Tony Blair, has ceased to respect the Charter of... 
Just as the England football manager starts with bells and flags and balloons and ends up reviled, s... 
I have more in common with a three-toed sloth or a one-eyed pterodactyl or a Kalamata olive than I h... 
I'm the American Winston Churchill. 
Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful. 
One hundred years, ... America will be last. America's always last. Great Britain did away with slav... 
I don't know if I have a favorite color. 
It's very special having a new little girl. 
I didn't bother with television myself because it consisted largely of windmills, puppets and po... 
Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothin... 
Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student... 
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of pre... 
As a young kid, I had a great background. My grandfather was a minister; I have two uncles that were... 
Gandhi wanted to meet with Churchill, his most bitter foe, when he visited London in 1931- but it di... 
I have an ambivalent relationship with Margaret Thatcher. She came to power in May 1979 - a month be... 
I had great relationship with the Hispanic - we had a lot of Hispanics in the school actually from d... 
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I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserabl... 
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of pre... 
I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas. 
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As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the d... 
No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his ... 
Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine ... 
I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came ... 
I asked him on whom or what he had based his oratorical style. Churchill replied, It was an American... 
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I love Winston Churchill. I love the wisdom he had, the sagacity. I like people who are independent-... 
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To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solut... 
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Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.