Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Carlisle Floyd

When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.

Ernest Rutherford

The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now on the warpath.

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

Christian Lous Lange

Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.

Gordon Cooper

I did have an occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, they were of different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to west over Europe.

Gerhard Schroder

The euro will raise the citizens' awareness of their belonging to one Europe more than any other integration step to date.

Gerhard Schroder

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

Gerhard Schroder

Our future begins on January 1 1999. The euro is Europe's key to the 21st century. The era of solo national fiscal and economic policy is over.

Gerhard Schroder

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

To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!

Herman Melville

Civilization does not engross all the virtues of humanity: she has not even her full share of them. They flourish in greater abundance and attain greater strength among many barbarous people. The hospitality of the wild Arab, the courage of the North American Indian, and the faithful friendships of some of the Polynesian nations, far surpass any thing of a similar kind among the polished communities of Europe.

Goran Persson

Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe.

Gijs de Vries

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

Gijs de Vries

The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more.

Gijs de Vries

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

Harriet Martineau

For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchenthan witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.

Hannah Arendt

The heritage of the American Revolution is forgotten, and the American government, for better and for worse, has entered into theheritage of Europe as though it were its patrimony--unaware, alas, of the fact that Europe's declining power was preceded and accompanied by political bankruptcy, the bankruptcy of the nation-state and its concept of sovereignty.

Gore Vidal

In Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments.

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.

Harold Rosenberg

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Jacques Delors

The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.

Jacques Delors

Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.

Jacques Delors

We will have to create an avant-garde.... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.

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 Ziegler

Switzerland has no competition. It sits in the middle of Europe, it has the highest technological development, it's legally safe and the political circumstances are never going to change.

Jean Monnet

Europe has never existed. One must genuinely create Europe.

Jean Monnet

There is no future for the people of Europe other than in union.