John Bruton Quotes

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• It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs.
• The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined.
• The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and transnational crime, advancing trade liberalization,…
• The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and…
• European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.
• We in Ireland have not been immune from the bigotry and the indifference which manifested itself in Europe this century
• The Irish Free State was one of dozens of new European democracies to emerge from the cauldron of the 1914-1918 war. It was one of…
• A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence.
• But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial…
• If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow.
• Financial service providers act as the lubricating oil in the economy. They link consumers who want to invest their savings for a good return with…
• Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in…
• Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.
• Non-proliferation will only work if all states are willing to cooperate, and that will only happen if all feel they are being treated fairly.
• Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights…
• One cannot have economic growth without security.
• Proliferation of nuclear weapons to terrorist organisations is far more dangerous than proliferation of nuclear weapons to states, even states like North Korea.
• When the E.U. and the U.S. agree, other countries follow.
• That's where my job comes in. Getting the E.U. and U.S. to agree.
• The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.

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