Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexis Tsipras

We will do whatever we could do to keep Greece inside the euro and inside Europe.

Angela Merkel

I am not an expert in this field but I do try to keep up to date with the Bundesliga. And I do follow World Cups and European Championships more closely.

Angela Merkel

Above all it is important to point out that we can only maintain our prosperity in Europe if we belong to the most innovative regions in the world.

Angela Merkel

Implementing parts of European constitution and leaving out others - without knowing where we're going - isn't an option. That would be detrimental to the overall balance, which is why we must embark on another comprehensive discussion of the issue once again. I would like to see Europe retain the idea of a constitution in the end, and I plan to campaign on its behalf.

Angela Merkel

Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together.

Angela Merkel

I said, yet again, for Germany, Europe is not only indispensable, it is part and parcel of our identity. We've always said German unity, European unity and integration, that's two parts of one and the same coin. But we want, obviously, to boost our competitiveness.

Anatoly Chubais

For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good.

Ernie Els

We have a tougher field this year with Vijay and some of the other European stars, so it should be a fantastic week obviously.

We need the same protection from European law.

Victor Ponta

I hope Greece is going to remain in the Euro zone.

John Monks

We are demonstrating for services for all the people and not just services for money. It's very important that this message goes to the European Parliament today.

Unfortunately, the member states of the UN, EU and OSCE are not prepared to put out the financial resources needed to keep up the increased need for police training.

Timothy Garton Ash

Well, that's the way democracy works. We have to build this Europe with the material we have at our disposal. And this material is national democracy.

Timothy Garton Ash

Europe's biggest problem is its success.

Timothy Garton Ash

After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates - but being in the general vicinity of Europe does seem to be a continuing requirement.

Timothy Garton Ash

America is divided by a great argument about itself. Europe is divided by a great argument about America.

Thomas Sowell

Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in the modern welfare state, whether in Western Europe or on this side of the Atlantic.

Robert Anton Wilson

"Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others."

Tariq Ramadan

In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.

Suzi Quatro

I am busy touring all over Europe, Japan, and Australia.

Thomas Jefferson

With all the defects in our Constitution, whether general or particular, the comparison of our government with those of Europe, is like a comparison of Heaven with Hell. England, like the earth, may be allowed to take the intermediate station.

Rick Santorum

Who are benefits promised to, overwhelmingly? Well, they're promised to older people. And if you have a society like Europe that is upside down where there are a lot more older people than younger people, you have economic calamity.

Tony Blair

Of particular importance to us is the recognition... that what we want is a Europe of nations, not a federal super-state.

Simon Jenkins

Without history we are infants. Ask what binds the British Isles more closely to America than to Europe and only history gives a reply. Of all intellectual pursuits, history is the most supremely useful. That is why people crave it and need ever more of it.

Rem Koolhaas

Without a tighter union, Europe will disintegrate

Timothy Radcliffe

Christianity will only make a contribution to the future of Europe if it can prove that people like Sam Harris are wrong and that we can make peace.

Timothy Radcliffe

The key question for the future of Europe is whether these faiths will live together in peace or whether they will tear Europe apart.

Roger Michell

I want to tell stories about Europe - I feel profoundly European, I don't feel like an American.

Sam Torrance

Seve Ballesteros was a million percent the best Ryder Cupper on either side of Europe and America.

Rush Limbaugh

Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher did more to liberate people by defeating the Soviet Union and freeing eastern Europe than the Obamas, the Clintons, and Kerrys of this world ever have. They were all on the wrong side of that debate.

Romano Prodi

We have to give ourselves a constitution which marks the birth of Europe as a political entity.

Roy Hattersley

Labour has converted to Europe because Europe has converted to socialism.

Susan Rice

In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.