“Brexiteers like the cheating man shocked he can't stay in the spare room for 2 years while he sorts himself out.”— J.K. RowlingVerified account, twitter.com
“The numbing news that Britain has voted to leave the European Union is the worst step backward for Europe -- and for Western civilization -- since the end of World War II.”— Charles Kaiser, edition.cnn.com
“I hope I’m wrong to think that Britain has made a choice that will have very bad consequences, because I don’t wish disaster on my country. But among the things to fear is what happens when the millions of poorer Britons who were seduced by the Brexiters discover that it is not the miracle solution…”— Andrew Rawnsley, theguardian.com
“It will be a formidable challenge for Britain’s next prime minister to make an economic, diplomatic and political success out of Brexit. Or, to set the bar at a more realistic level, to contain the damage.”— Andrew Rawnsley, theguardian.com
“David Cameron... The man who arrived as leader of his party pledging to purge its obsession with ‘banging on about Europe’ has blown himself up over Europe.”— Andrew Rawnsley, theguardian.com
“The Founding Fathers had it right. There is an inherent danger coming from direct democracy when combined with an uninformed and manipulated public that has to decide the policy of a country, as we saw on June 23 when 36 percent of eligible voters in the UK chose to exit the European Union. Again, t…”— Franz-Stefan Gady, thediplomat.com
“Awakening to a stock market plunge and a precipitous decline in the value of the pound that Britain hasn't seen in more than 30 years, voters now face a series of economic shocks that analysts say will only worsen before they improve. The consequences of the leave vote will be felt worldwide, even h…”— Brian Fung, washingtonpost.com
“Brexit. Grexit. Departugal. Italeave. Fruckoff. Czechout. Oustria. Finish. Slovakout. Latervia. Byegium.”— Rahul Goma Phulore, twitter.com
“We don't have a common market in the Americas. But in all sorts of ways, the United States constrains itself in order to bind everyone under a common set of norms and rules that makes everybody more prosperous.”— Barack Obama, whitehouse.gov
“I’m not coming here to fix any votes. I’m not casting a vote myself. I’m offering my opinion. And in democracies, everybody should want more information, not less. And you shouldn’t be afraid to hear an argument being made… If, right now, I’ve got access to a massive market where I sell 44 percent o…”— Barack Obama, whitehouse.gov
“I think there's a British poet who once said, 'No man is an island' even an island as beautiful as this. We're stronger together. And if we continue to tackle our challenges together, then future generations will look back on ours, just as we look back on the previous generation of English and Ameri…”— Barack Obama, whitehouse.gov
“The more the EU does, the less room there is for national decision-making. Sometimes these EU rules sound simply ludicrous, like the rule that you can’t recycle a teabag, or that children under eight cannot blow up balloons, or the limits on the power of vacuum cleaners. Sometimes they can be truly…”— Boris Johnson, telegraph.co.uk