European Quotes · Page 6

The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.

— John Bruton

Genuinely, as a mum, all the sunlit uplands are when we leave the European Union.

— Andrea Leadsom

We probably got on better with the likes of Holland, Belgium, Norway and Sweden, some of whom are not even European.

— Jack Charlton

The only thing they (the English) have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease.

— Jacques Chirac

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

— Jose Manuel Barroso

Russia is the biggest European nation. We are Europeans, we are not Asians.

— Ksenia Sobchak

We have a very long legal system with the European Union, and we're English speaking.

— Enda Kenny

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

— Pat Buchanan

It is clear that I have to change the European dynamics to create a better place for Italians, French, Austrians, and Spaniards.

— Matteo Salvini

For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won…

— Bernhard von Bulow

It's not attractive at the moment to vouch for the European idea. I still do it, because I believe nothing would be…

— Martin Schulz

The European Union that emerges from the Eurozone crisis is going to be a very different body. It will be transformed perhaps…

— David Cameron

The European Union is an institution that is in the interest of big business, not the European people. So it's understandable that…

— Ken Loach

People say that if we work for the Single European Act, women will get their rights, the water will be purer, and…

— Tony Benn

To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.

— Giles Foden

The Asiatics and the Africans, such as the Russians, the Arabs, the Hindus, are increasing with marked rapidity. Never have the European…

— Alexis Carrel

Following the end of the Cold War, there was much discussion concerning the point of NATO. In the event, it was reinvented…

— Martin Jacques

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

— Michiel Huisman

Right now I'm living my boyhood dream, which was to play for a European club. The fact that it's a huge club…

— Neymar

foreign policy is about trying to project the European model, its values, its principles, to the outside world. But at the moment,…

— Pierre Vimont

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

— Doris Lessing

The quality of life of European cities and towns of almost any size make life in America look not just like a…

— James Howard Kunstler

We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.…

— Winston Churchill

Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote…

— Hugh Evans

The United States does not carry baggage from a colonial past as do European countries.

— Robert C. O'Brien

The European Union is not only a great idea, but it's also an idea we must keep working on.

— Sebastian Kurz

There is surely a finite amount of European baked goods, isn't there?

— Mel Giedroyc

Our historical responsibility does not end at the Austrian or European border.

— Sebastian Kurz

We would like Serbia to become a member of the European Union as quickly as possible.

— Ivica Dacic

“Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn’t a country; it’s a near-death experience.”

— Bill Bryson

American audiences and European and Asian audiences are so different.

— Bill Pullman

If we can get Hibs into European football it would be massive for everyone involved.

— John McGinn

We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice.

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Juggling the U.S. Tour and the European Tour didn't suit me at all.

— Shane Lowry

It is not acceptable that European Union countries are divided into those who give and those who take.

— Jean-Claude Juncker

We should never suffer Cuba to pass from the hands of Spain to any other European power.

— Henry Cabot Lodge

If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

— James Joyce

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

— Michael Fassbender

European countries give much larger shares of aid for poverty relief than the U.S.

— Angus Deaton

No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.

— Walter Salles