Currency Quote by George Will

The euro is not a currency. It is a political weapon to force countries to implement the policies decided by the E.U. and keep…

— Marine Le Pen

The Euro is a conquest of sovereignty. It gives us a margin of manoeuvre. Its a tool to help us master globalisation and help…

— Dominique Strauss-Kahn

The reserve currency role seems to add prestige to an area and some people in Europe have talked about the desirability of the euro…

— Robert C. Solomon

Europe is one thing. The euro is something else.

— Beppe Grillo

The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural…

— George Will

We must stress that the euro has been beneficial to the European Union because, otherwise, in this context of international turmoil, every country would…

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

“Far from being Eurocentric, my analysis "exoticizes" Europe. Europe is historically aberrant. In some ways this was a historical accident, not entirely Europe's fault.…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

I was sure we would never see the adoption of the Euro. Countries giving up their currencies for a common tender was, it seemed…

— John Naisbitt

Indeed, the creators of the euro envisioned it as an instrument to promote political union.

— Gerhard Schroder

The euro is good for Europe. But only if there is flexibility all around.

— Milton Friedman

It [the Euro] is a decisive step towards ever closer political and institutional union in Europe. Above all, it is political.

— Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

Stories are invented: Juncker wants to introduce the euro everywhere or immediately deepen the EU - although I publicly stated the opposite that same…

— Jean-Claude Juncker