Europe Quotes · Page 57

Europe sees itself as a liberal-minded society. It has no desire to be, nor can it be, a "Christian club.

— Walter Kasper

I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.

— John Major

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.

— Madeleine Albright

Whether it is a hard or soft Brexit, there are opportunities here for us to be had.

— Gladys Berejiklian

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.

— Mark Twain

Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

— Mary McCarthy

My name was on the list very early after these announcements were made through the newspapers in Europe.

— Claude Nicollier

A black man who is conservative can be a very big target on the left.

— Nick Searcy

The European Union should come up with a solid plan to help especially Poland and Slovakia make this transition away from coal.

— Frans Timmermans

Conservatives consider liberals well-intentioned, but misguided. Liberals consider conservatives not only wrong, but really, really bad people.

— Larry Elder

We must also take this opportunity to learn from the situation [of Brexit], just as we learned from the refugee and debt…

— Jean-Claude Juncker

Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country,…

— Daniel Berrigan

In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off…

— Chet Baker

Britain, Europe's second largest economy, a member of the G-7 and the UN Security Council, wants to leave the EU. That weakens…

— Martin Schulz

There is a clear political desire to rebalance the British economy away from London towards the regions, and away from the services…

— Rishi Sunak

We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level…

— Margaret Thatcher

Across Europe, not just in the U.K., the old Beveridge and Bismarckian variants of the welfare state have been dismantled. In their…

— Guy Standing

“If the eurozone collapses, its epitaph should be the words of Jean-Claude Juncker, the former prime minister of Luxembourg, in 2007: “We…

— John Micklethwait

If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union,…

— Peer Steinbruck

Few political debates have been as divisive as the European one. I fought as hard as I could on the Remain side,…

— Damian Green

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but…

— Winston Churchill

As I grew up, I began to discover a little bit about the situation of black people in America and experienced an…

— Ahmet Ertegun

Putin has made a habit of supporting far-right candidates who undermine his foes in Europe; perhaps he never could have imagined such…

— Franklin Foer

Part of the concept of the euro zone was to establish a common market. The banks were going to bank across all…

— Jamie Dimon

Liberals always exempt themselves from the rules that they impose on others.

— Rush Limbaugh

So yes, European decision making is not pretty. But it does work.

— Helle Thorning-Schmidt

I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover.

— Sylvia Plath

The conservative is the one who understands his own society from within and loves and defends it.

— Roger Scruton

“Liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.”

— Lenny Bruce

I sailed around Europe and lived with the Karen tribe in Thailand for a month.

— Lily Nicksay

I didn't realise how much of a personal vendetta Dominic Cummings had against the establishment.

— Gina Miller

All the small details make the difference and allow you to become a major team in Europe.

— Marcel Desailly

“It is proper #netiquette to be conservative in messages you send and liberal in messages you receive.

— David Chiles

Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.

— Naftali Bennett

I think all of Europe has been too soft on the refugee crisis.

— Michael T. Flynn

The vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind

— Dennis Prager

There aren't many Asian players in Europe or the Premier League, so that's more attention for me.

— Park Ji-sung

In rural Spain, at least, it is far better to arrive than to travel, however hopefully.

— Honor Tracy

Pep is a great manager who has coached some big teams in Europe and won a lot of trophies.

— Kelechi Iheanacho

With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe.

— Peter Drucker