Body Quote by Margaret Thatcher

The Commission is extremely important. The E.U. without the Commission would not be the European Union.

— Miroslav Lajcak

I have done it [appointed commissions] regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary. But after a commission is established you find…

— Calvin Coolidge

My objective is that before the end of the millennium Europe should have a true federation. The Commission should become a political executive which…

— Jacques Delors

As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the…

— Mario Monti

For the institutions of the European Union are at present incomplete. A European Senate is badly needed to complete them. By creating an upper…

— Larry Siedentop

Since it took up office, the Commission which I lead has pursued a clear policy: we need less interference from Brussels when it comes…

— Jean-Claude Juncker

The European Union can now act like a major power, at least that is what the European Union tells us.

— John Bolton

There is a distorted perception of what goes on in Brussels. No one reports on the Commission taking a hundred initiatives from its predecessor…

— Jean-Claude Juncker

“Andrew Moraviscik, one of the best American scholars of Europe, points out that once you exclude translators and clerical workers, the European Commission employs…

— Fareed Zakaria

As far as our rulers in Brussels are concerned, Her Majesty can stand for the European Parliament and vote in the elections for it.…

— Peter Hitchens

Over the longer term, the institutions and powers of the EU will continue to expand and certain policymaking powers, heretofore vested in the member…

— David Cameron

People won't want powers being handed back from bureaucrats in Brussels to be given to bureaucrats in Britain. Our aim should be to give…

— Liz Truss