Quotes About Europe

If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it.

Iran has always had a good relationship with Europe. The Middle East is Europe's neighbor, and we are a strong player in this region.

In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.

I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.

The problem is: When two governments or institutions in Europe hold differing opinions, it is immediately a crisis.

The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.

Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the first is practised on the Continent, the latter in Great Britain.

If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory which its three or four million people would enjoy.

America's health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well ... all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky starts we don't live in Paraguay!

In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.

There is a growing consensus that the European systems have worked better than the American: They have been able to deliver better health care to more people at lower cost.

The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.

Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.

What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?

What North Europe thinks of as its history is actually quite provincial and of limited interest. Different sorts of Christian killing each other, and that's about it.

A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.

We have many times led Europe in the fight for freedom. It would be an ignoble end to our long history if we tamely accepted to perish by degrees.

In the darkest days of European history, America stood close by us and today we stand close by America. Nothing will ever be the same.

But Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now.

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

My worry is that Donald Trump may inspire copycats, also in Europe. That's why I hope Hillary Clinton wins.