Best European Thoughts
863 European quotes by 641 unique authors
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The European boys have small ideas but they sure know how to dress 'em up.
— George Gershwin
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We have now an American political party and a European one. Not all Americans who vote for the European party want to become Europeans. But…
— Harvey Mansfield
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We are involved in a constitution-building process of historic importance. The Convention should mark a new stage in European integration.
— Romano Prodi
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European government is a clear expression I still use, you need time, but step by step, as in the Austrian case, the European Commission takes…
— Romano Prodi
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As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15…
— Mario Monti
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Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention without politics to…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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All European tradition, Marxism included, has conspired to defy the natural order of all things. Mother Earth has been abused, the powers have been abused,…
— Russell Means
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The European powers had been anxious to see the United States become embroiled in a civil war and eventually break into two smaller and weaker…
— G. Edward Griffin
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Without the potatoe, the balance of European power might never have tilted north
— Michael Pollan
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I think it is important for all those young out there, who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it…
— Jack Kemp
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Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it
— Stephen Harper
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When I saw how the European Union was developing, it was very obvious what they had in mind was not democratic. In Britain, you vote…
— Tony Benn
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The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair…
— Maria Cantwell
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Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian country, neighbor to Africa, Black Sea country, Caspian Sea, all…
— Ahmet Davutoglu
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The crisis in Ukraine is all the European Union’s fault. Its leaders negotiated a trade deal with Ukraine, which essentially blackmailed the country to choose…
— Marine Le Pen
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I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following…
— Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.
— Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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I think that we must come together progressively, with the British, the Germans, the Spanish, the Italians and with the new members of the European…
— Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance.
— Cheikh Anta Diop
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A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So…
— Peter L. Berger
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Horsemeat in many European and Asian countries is consumed as a delicacy.
— Elton Gallegly
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It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape…
— Lawrence Summers
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If the Europeans truly wish to improve their NATO contribution they can show it simply enough. They can establish professional armed forces, like those of…
— Margaret Thatcher
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The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear.
— Margaret Thatcher
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What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second,…
— Margaret Thatcher
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