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Quotes About Romania

Iran also has an extensive missile development programme. Iranian officials declare that the range of their modified Shahab-3 missiles is 2,000km, putting allied countries such as Turkey, Greece, Romania, and Bulgaria within reach.
~ Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Romania strongly supports Turkey's E.U. accession.
~ Victor Ponta
Romanians are culturally European, very close to the French. Socially, they are now building a society that is emotionally closer to the Balkans, Turkey and Greece.
~ Andrei Codrescu
When writing music for the 'Kaddish,' I evoked the prayers that were sung in Eastern Galicia, Ukraine and Romania. I was advised by my late friend, Boris Carmeli... He would sing me various melodies that were sung by his grandfather, thus they had to be at least as old as the mid-19th century.
~ Krzysztof Penderecki
The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
~ Octavian Paler
By the summer of 1920 Lenin felt confident enough to export the Revolution westwards, ordering the Red Army to march on Warsaw and confidently talking of the need to 'sovietize Hungary and perhaps Czechia and Romania too'. Only their decisive defeat by the Polish army on the banks of the River Vistula halted the spread of the Bolshevik epidemic.
~ Niall Ferguson
Romania was the greatest exception with GDP up strongly by about 55% but with the country's material consumption expanding 2.5 times during the decade, a clear case of rising inefficiency of material use and increasing dependence of economic growth on higher material inputs.
~ Vaclav Smil
In Romania, of course, gymnastics is among the most popular sports, and my parents had a dream of escaping the Ceausescu regime and giving their child a better life. So they came to the United States and put me in gymnastics.
~ Dominique Moceanu
Romania can be a linchpin in delivering gas to its neighbors and even become an energy exporter for its neighbors across Central and Eastern Europe.
~ Joe Biden
I was fresh off the boat from Romania, and one of my clients was the agent to all of the '90s supermodels: Gail Elliott, Naomi Campbell, Stephanie Seymour, Cindy Crawford. I had no idea who these girls were! They were so gorgeous, absolutely the most beautiful women I have ever seen in my life.
~ Anastasia Soare
I realized that nobody paid attention to eyebrows. In Romania, it was the norm. I thought, 'This is Hollywood. We work with the most incredible, beautiful models and actors and this is important.'
~ Anastasia Soare
Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
~ Traian Basescu
I assure Romanians that once I return... I will try and generate a sentiment of reconciliation in society. Divisions in society must be stopped, they must be annihilated, because Romania needs all its energy to... integrate into the civilized world.
~ Traian Basescu
See, when I went to the Olympics in '76, the gymnastics people knew that I was good, but everybody else, after I won, everybody was like, 'Where's she coming from? Who is she? What is Romania?'
~ Nadia Comaneci
Poland is much more advanced than Romania in structural reforms.
~ Victor Ponta
For me, each journey to Romania is also a journey into another time, in which I never knew which events in my life were coincidence and which were staged. This is why I have, in every public statement I have made, demanded access to the secret files kept on me which, under various pretexts, have invariably been denied me.
~ Herta Muller
Pe cît de jalnic? ?i de nociv? a fost ?i este presta?ia moral? a jurnalismului din România, pe atît de steril? intelectual ?i nul? cognitiv este presta?ia puzderiei de poli?i?ti care, belfere?te, a monopolizat înv???mîntul superior cu ?tiin?a lor inutil?, producînd puzderie de Fachidioten – de speciali?ti incul?i, semidoc?i, limbu?i ?i, în cel mai bun caz, retori.
~ Unknown
My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything. (running for mayor of Bucharest, Romania)
~ Ilie Nastase
First in France, first in Romania - by land and sea to the English and Paris. Marvellous deeds by that great alliance. The violent brute will lose Lorraine.
~ Nostradamus
As for Rome, it did not bend one bit. When in Romania the liberal priest Andrea Agotha convened a "Congress" of some forty Catholic clergy in the town of Targu Mures on April 27, 1950 to discuss creating a "democratic" (pro-Communist Party) Church, Pope Pius XII immediately excommunicated them once he received the news in Rome.513
~ Paul Kengor