Quotes About Europe

The E.U., its institutions, structure and ways of working are an anachronism.

When English football started to integrate more with European football, England started to share the Latin culture more.

It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.

I think us leaving would have an enormous and bad effect on the rest of the EU. The EU would respond by deepening integration and becoming more of a 'political project'. It would not only be damaging ourselves but also the kind of Europe we want.

We intend to continue our interest in the affairs of Europe and of the world.

I am quite sure that from America will come the greatest help for the cause of peace, and I consider it my duty to inform the people of Europe as to the feelings and intentions of the friends of peace in Europe.

A Europe without internal borders can only exist if it has functioning external borders.

I believe that Europe without Britain at the heart will be less reform-driven, less open, less international Europe.

The decisive factor for the future of Europe - and before all things, for the 'restoration' of Europe - will be whether political thought and national feelings are influenced by the reality of internationalism.

Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much later than other continents because of the interruption of Africa's own historical development by the colonization of Africa by Europe.

I said to the German Ambassador that, as long as there was only a dispute between Austria and Serbia alone, I did not feel entitled to intervene; but that, directly it was a matter between Austria and Russia, it became a question of the peace of Europe, which concerned us all.

I don't like to generalize but I've had nothing but bad experiences with Mexican food in Europe.

Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews

The American dream seems to be thriving in Europe not at home.

Imaginez, pour en prendre la mesure, ce qu'aurait signifié, en Europe, une série de dynasties impériales qui n'auraient rien perdu de leur pompe, ni de leur signification depuis Auguste jusqu'à la Première Guerre mondiale. [C'est la Chine]

Europe,' Barnett writes, 'moved on from the Second World War and Britain didn't.' One might go so far as to say that England never got over winning the war.

BMW means Brexit Made Wonderful.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Americans who had traveled in Europe knew the 'free' European peasants suffered considerably greater oppression and misery than did American bondsman. Modern scholarship has shown that the exploitation rate -- the percentage of the worker's production that was taken from him by his owners -- was lower among the slaves than among European peasants, that work loads were light, and that slaves actually experienced a considerable measure of personal freedom.

Scutage was an aspect of two fundamental historic trends in twelfth-century Europe that profoundly affected the knights. The first was the increasing concentration of power in the hands of a few kings and great princes that gradually professionalized warfare. The second was the economic upturn from the depressed state of the ninth and tenth centuries to the Commercial Revolution of the eleventh and twelfth centuries that raised living standards and inflated prices.

Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women I think men revere older women.

I think the worry all the time, I think in, not just in Europe but outside, is where does the US stand in this slightly difficult space between America first and America alone.

Yates's determinism, like Flaubert's, was a matter of knowing his characters well enough to know their fates, and making the reader see this, too. Just as one never expects Emma to repent of her infidelity and embrace provincial life, one also figures the Wheelers won't move to Europe and live happily ever after. Their weaknesses, well defined at the outset, mark them for a bad end.

Yankee Stadium, it's like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down.