Family Quote by Rick Steves

Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

“They all agreed that under communism they had been just as poor, but at least there was food and security, whereas independence had brought…

— Isabel Allende

“The people of Europe have lost their will to live; they are dying out, because they don't want to thrive any longer, because they…

— Markus Willinger

“Europeans had thought only of enriching themselves as the local population starved to death.58”

— Peter Frankopan

“When the Communist Party took over Eastern Europe, its first work was to destroy the civil associations that it did not control.”

— Roger Scruton

“In an old culture like Europe, everything has already been done. For people who always complain about everything purportedly being so bad, I want…

— Carié Maas

You have to consider that countries have now joined the EU that had no sovereignty for decades, countries like Poland, or others that weren't…

— Lech Kaczynski

Poland does not want to remain a net recipient of EU subsidies forever. On the contrary: we want the right to develop in a…

— Jaroslaw Kaczynski

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

— Jean-Claude Juncker

These are the values inspiring those brave workers in Poland. The values that have inspired other dissidents under communist domination. They remind us that…

— Ronald Reagan

It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

— Anonymous

“Europe's era of internal cohesion may already be past.”

— Robert D. Kaplan