Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean-Claude Juncker

I completely agree with Helmut Kohl. I am not an advocate of the "United States of Europe," nor am I an integration fanatic.

I think European integration -- and this is a must for me -- must not be counteracted by nationalist, protectionist measures.

Michel Platini

I said during Euro 2004 that the team was not good, and nothing since has made me think the contrary,

Jared Allen

I'm staying in shape. You never know what can happen. Right now it looks like I might play in Europe if I don't make the practice squad,

Bernard Berenson

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

Michael Caine

I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.

Silvio Berlusconi

I think it will be fun. Not just for Milan fans, but for all the fans in Europe and the world that will follow this game.

We don't feel that there's any discrimination in terms of treatment that is being given to Europe with respect to other partners.

Jean Baudrillard

The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn't just a gap between us, but a whole chasm of modernity.

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

It [the Euro] is a decisive step towards ever closer political and institutional union in Europe. Above all, it is political.

George Canning

Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves onevery occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us.

Christopher Dawson

The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms

Gerhard Schroder

Whatever the details of union may be, there's no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe.

Gerhard Schroder

The euro is a sickly premature infant, the result of an over-hasty monetary union.

Gijs de Vries

Muslim organisations tend to have a low level of organisation. The communities in Europe are quite diverse.

Gijs de Vries

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

Harvey Weinstein

I saw 'Tintin' in Europe - it is 'Indiana Jones' on steroids. Unbelievable. What a fantastic movie. Steven Spielberg, you rock the house. And working with those young English guys like Edgar Wright, and also Peter Jackson; what a great combination.

Jacques Delors

The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.

Jacques Chirac

This will provide an engine, an example that will allow Europe to go faster, further and better.

Jacques Chirac

Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

Jean Monnet

Europe has never existed. One must genuinely create Europe.

Chris Tomlinson

I feel I've lost ground. I got to 22, I'd been to the finals of the Olympics, the Commonwealths, Worlds and Europeans and you think, 'This is it, 23, time to do it.' I'm now 24 and time moves on.

Laurent Fabius

Italy is one of the pillars of Europe and one could be quite worried, ... So I think there is a need for a clarification at the level of the heads of government.

Vladimir Bukovsky

Europe, I have lived in your future, and I did not like it...

Salvador Dali

Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear later ... when Europe will have restored its traditional monarchies.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.

Voltaire

A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

William Joyce

We know that England is crying for a leader, and that leader has emerged in the person of the greatest Englishman I have ever known, Sir Oswald Mosley ... When the history of Europe comes to be written I can assure you that his name will not be second to either Mussolini or Hitler.

Winston Churchill

If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.

Winston Churchill

We must build a kind of United States of Europe.

Robert Kagan

When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.

William Dean Howells

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

Wendell Willkie

If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe.