The United States does not carry baggage from a colonial…

When I did a year-long study in 2005 of European countries integrating Muslims into their cultures, France came in the lowest of the rank.…

— Janine di Giovanni

I learned English at school, or at least that's how it started. Also, in Holland - as opposed to some other European countries -…

— Michiel Huisman

If the Chinese can't buy U.S. products, they'll buy them from European countries and then develop stronger economic ties with France and Germany and…

— Gary Locke

In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in…

— Carl Hagelin

It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone…

— Vaclav Klaus

When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the…

— Doris Lessing

For 200 years, the dominant powers have also been the colonial powers: the European countries, the U.S. and Japan. They have never been required…

— Martin Jacques

The question shouldn't be 'Are we guilty about our colonial past;' it should be 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate present'?

— Sara Sheridan

I'm a big champion of talking about Britain's colonial past but the important thing is not hiding it away and giving a true account…

— Denise Lewis

Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be wrong to force them…

— Vaclav Klaus

If European countries want to cater to U.S. foreign policy interests, I don't think that they stand to gain anything.

— Vladimir Putin

To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of…

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

Growth in any individual European country has to be the result of policies for growth pursued in that country consistent with budgetary discipline.

— Mario Monti

We [European countries] probably need to move forward together, each at their own speed. The faster ones, that could be the countries in the…

— Paolo Gentiloni

There is nothing wrong with us sitting down and arguing that issue that we are a European country.

— Pat Buchanan