Europe Quotes · Page 58

A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.

— Frank Rizzo

The presidency of the Euro group is an interesting and important task.

— Wolfgang Schauble

Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.

— Peter Mandelson

Conservatives are always right about everything. We are. We are.

— Monica Crowley

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

— Nigel Farage

A national currency, with the Euro as a common currency - that wouldn't bother me.

— Marine Le Pen

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

— Desmond Tutu

Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of…

— Aldrich Ames

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

— John Stuart Mill

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of…

— Christopher Lasch

I'm delighted to have been accepted into the U.S.A. with my fishing program after its success in Australia and throughout the U.K.,…

— Rex Hunt

Is Europe a home for an alliance of civilizations or is it a Christian club? If the former is true, then Turkey…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

When I first arrived at the Matignon, my desire was to reconcile Parliament and De Gaulle. I had forgotten only two things.…

— Georges Pompidou

We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and…

— Ibrahim Rugova

Boris [Johnson] and Dave [Cameron] gnawed each other's testicles [during the Tory civil war which blighted the EU referendum].

— Ken Livingstone

Most Remainers and pragmatic Leavers have supported Theresa May's efforts to negotiate a bespoke deal based on the Chequers proposals. And most…

— Nick Boles

How can a governing party propose to its people a referendum that won't be binding? Is that a serious political programme? No…

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Brexit was meant to be about taking back control, we are ceding control; it was meant to be about trade deals, we…

— Jo Johnson

My first flight was to Majorca as a 17-year-old and I went to Seattle to visit a friend after that. But the…

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I was a huge Beatles fan. We could talk about who I listened to growing up and what my sources were, but…

— James Taylor

But let no one be under any doubt that the scale of the challenge that Europe faces in this emerging global economy…

— John Hutton

The Second World War had really devastating effects for much of Europe. It really didn't take them very long to reconstruct state…

— Noam Chomsky

In those years, when I came to the States, people were always asking me why I didn't sing anymore. I'd tell them,…

— Miriam Makeba

In Europe, I was just a little guy... the winters in the mountains were very nasty.

— Bruno Sammartino

Spring Break is very strange. I grew up in France, so I don't know Spring Break. That doesn't exist in Europe.

— Alexandre Aja

The euro area must not be treated as an 'opt out' from the European Union.

— Jose Manuel Barroso

Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.

— Al Franken

all the salt of Turkish life consists of politics and official intrigue.

— Isabel Burton

It is axiomatic that the security of America and Europe are linked.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Yesterday's shining heroes of Brexit have become the sorrowful heroes of today.

— Jean-Claude Juncker

Nothing commends a radical change to an Englishman more than the belief that it is really conservative.

— H. A. L. Fisher

Until you can intelligently articulate the other side's position, you are not an adult. You are a liberal.

— Ann Coulter

In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life.

— Rita Mae Brown

A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.

— Dorothy Parker

I do not often attack the Labour Party, they do it so well themselves.

— Edward Heath

Liberals have always opposed the concept of an independent nuclear deterrent.

— David Steel

I think that the EU with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment.

— Angela Merkel

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Once the U.S. and NATO walked away from Libya, a chaotic, lawless state in the soft underbelly of Europe arose.

— Pete Hoekstra