Europe Quotes · Page 29

[On The Netherlands:] ... the entire country is a kind of saturated sponge.

— Mary Mapes Dodge

The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone.

— Evangelos Venizelos

How can you be inspired by Cameron and Miliband? These guys are just drabness personified.

— Irvine Welsh

In Europe you learn not to fail, and in America you fail to learn. You need failure.

— Hartmut Esslinger

The last time Boris Johnson did a deal with the Germans he came back with three nearly new water cannon.

— Theresa May

In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code word for 'big government.'

— James Surowiecki

You might want a certain type of Brexit deal, but you can't get it if the numbers aren't there.

— Amber Rudd

“A liberal is a noble and indispensable lunatic who tries to make a cosmos of his own head.”

— Gilbert Keith Chesterton

I just don't accept the premise that we have any economic issue with voting to leave. I think it's absolutely balanced.

— Andrea Leadsom

I believe in Britain and regardless of whether people voted to Leave or Remain, millions of people voting in record numbers showed…

— Priti Patel

The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20…

— Robert Reich

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished…

— Edmund Burke

My parents thought I was crazy. When I graduated, you didn't hear of basketball players going to Japan. Everyone went to Europe…

— Anne Donovan

Party politics are quite upsetting. I've been a member of the Labour party, the Green party, the Women's Equality Party, the National…

— Jack Monroe

I am naturally extremely proud to be selected as European Ryder Cup captain for 2016, european Ryder Cup has been a massive…

— Darren Clarke

Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and…

— Lin Biao

The key to stopping the hard-right nationalist forces poised to pounce on Brexit isn't going to be finessing a reprieve for the…

— Ash Sarkar

There is no nation on the continent of Europe that is less able to do harm to England, and there isno nation…

— John Bright

The wild open-market theory that died in 1929 had a run of just over thirty years. Communism, a complete melding of religious,…

— John Ralston Saul

I was lucky that one of my first movies, 'One Million Years B.C.' was made in Europe by a British company. The…

— Raquel Welch

My contention is that if you trace it back, it was the people of the East who brought them out of the…

— Malcolm X

Many young Danish theologians went to Wittenberg starting in 1517, listened to Luther's theses and, in 1536, brought the Reformation to our…

— Margrethe II of Denmark

I went to Germany taking a chance on seeing what Europe was like, and taking on that new challenge. Obviously it wasn't…

— Zack Steffen

He was a conservative all right, but invariably he gave the impression that he was a conservative because he was surrounded by…

— Anonymous

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

— Johann Lamont

I've got to see the Brexit process through. we won the war, but we must win the peace.

— Nigel Farage

We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold.

— Kevin Rudd

I have read some of [the Lisbon Treaty] but not all of it.

— Caroline Flint

A majority of voters in a majority of constituencies voted to leave the E.U. I wish it wasn't so.

— Wes Streeting

Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.

— Mike Rosen

Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.

— Anonymous

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

— Frank Popoff

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

— Gijs de Vries

Political leaders need to formulate long-term EU goals that show: Yes, we want to stay together.

— Martin Schulz

Peace in Europe can only come through union in one economic system. The United States of Europe are overdue.

— Henry Williamson

There is no club in Europe that wouldn't want Van Persie at centre-forward.

— David Moyes

I was one of the few journalists who was quite pro-Corbyn from the beginning.

— Dawn Foster

One of the things I know about the European Union is that the European Union can destroy jobs.

— Michael Gove

A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.

— Anonymous

Europe as a whole is increasingly jesttisoning the old path of the Christian fathers.

— David Wilkerson