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Quotes About Romania

My problem is that I'm negative - I come from Romania. Romanians are a little bit negative in thinking. Everyone knows that. That's normal here.
~ Simona Halep
Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
~ Victor Ponta
There's a burgeoning film scene in Romania.
~ Harry Lloyd
Ceausescu was mad, and he made half of Romania mad. I'm mad because of him.
~ Herta Muller
Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.
~ Jacques Chirac
Romania seems to be a very pro-Trump country and a pro-America country, and that's why it's a great honor to come visit.
~ Brad Parscale
We are the country that has attracted the biggest volume of foreign investment in southeastern Europe in the past few years. Romania doesn't need to beat itself, believing that it is a second-class citizen.
~ Traian Basescu
On the communist regime of Ceau?escu) Romania, said Eugene, was twenty million people living inside the imagination of a madman.
~ Jon Ronson
Even the National Bank of Romania doesn't have the huge resources needed to intervene in the market and keep the leu at an acceptable level, because they're drawing close to a floor below which the bank's reserves can't drop. The central bank has to wait for a moment of calm to efficiently conduct its interventions.
~ Traian Basescu
We developed a system in Romania that was very successfully continued for a number of years, but I don't know if it was because of some conflict in the organisation or whether there was government interference... but somehow, they have forgotten the importance of raising gymnasts to be ready for every Olympics.
~ Nadia Comaneci
For as long as I can remember, my mother went to church every single Sunday. She was born and raised in Romania as a person with limited means, and faith was something she could rely on - something that was free.
~ Dominique Moceanu
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania.
~ Dorothy Parker
The United States is the only country left now, bar Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, that has this all-government system.
~ John Mica
I think everyone in the stadium went home happy, except all those people in Rumania
~ Ron Greenwood
My mother never watched me train in Romania. She wasn't allowed, it just wasn't done back then. My training was paid for by the government. My parents were not at the Olympics with me, either. I never expected them to be.
~ Nadia Comaneci
Beyond Cina and the Athenaeum stretched Pia?a Revolu?iei, the vast square holding the former royal palace and Communist Party headquarters, where tanks had rolled and the streets had run with blood during the uprising against Ceau?escu in December 1989, the singular event which terminated the Cold War in Europe.
~ Robert D. Kaplan
Hungary shares more than it may like to admit with its former Warsaw Pact allies Romania and Bulgaria. Fischer explained that despite its economic progress, Hungary still cannot easily escape its past:
~ Robert D. Kaplan
The new Romanian elite that controls the country to this day is composed mostly of former communists and their families.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
In Romania, we have pledged to create a modern public service: well-educated, appropriately rewarded and above all, de-politicized.
~ Victor Ponta
Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep 'em down in L.A.
~ Philip Kaufman
Cel care scrie a doua oar? Werther este un farseur care ÅŸtie Werther pe dinafar? ÅŸi-l transcrie, din memorie. AÅŸa ÅŸi situaÅ£ia literar? a României: repet?, mai prost.
~ Eugene Ionesco
One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.
~ Nadia Comaneci
Liberals thought that it was possible to modernize agriculture, improve the peasants' standard of living, diversify the economy, and become a 'civilized' state. The conservatives were convinced that Romania was destined to remain an agrarian country for the foreseeable future.
~ Donald Sassoon
This was also their wish. Their ideal was a situation in which Romania would export wheat, thus providing enough wealth for its upper class to live it up in Western style; the peasantry could be kept docile by being fed with m?m?lig?
~ Donald Sassoon