Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry A. Kissinger

The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to the exponents of principles and hopes that are common to us all, and without which our life on earth would be a life without horizon or prospect.

Helmut Kohl

You didn't just pay lip service to the goal of overcoming the division of Europe and Germany... Rather, you put yourself at the forefront of those who encouraged us on the way to unity.

Patricia Briggs

Sometimes I have the urge to conquer large parts of Europe.

Plautus

Your wealth is where your friends are

Martin Schulz

Complementing the nation-state as it reaches its limits amid globalization: That is what Europe must offer.

Martin Schulz

For German Social Democracy, Europe is vital to the national interest.

Martin Schulz

Europe was founded as a community bound together by solidarity.

Martin Schulz

We agree: Brussels can't regulate everything. I'm driven by something else: There are forces in Europe that want to generally give national policy priority over a common European approach. We have to prevent this.

Johnny Depp

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.

John T. Flynn

We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores, and which actually makes it impossible for the United States to form its own decisions about its conduct and policies in Europe and Asia.

John Redwood

We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas.

James Joyce

If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

Lamar Hunt

He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage.

Frederick the Great

Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into our Europe. Enthusiasts have purveyed it, careerists have pretended to accept it, imbeciles have believed it.

Frederick the Great

Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals, and then spread to our Europe, where some fanatics espoused it, where some intriguers pretended to be convinced by it and where some imbeciles actually believed it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

New Orleans makes it possible to go to Europe without ever leaving the United States.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.

Johnny Ramone

Europe was a horrible place. There was nothing on TV. The food was terrible. And they don't even have ice. Who doesn't have ice?

Niki Lauda

Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.

Nicolas Berggruen

L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.

Nicolas Sarkozy

With the world in turmoil and doubt, the American people, faithful to the values that have always defined America's identity, have expressed with force their faith in progress and the future. At a time when we must face huge challenges together, your election has raised enormous hope in France, in Europe and beyond.

Nicolas Sarkozy

Europe is right to tell us to reduce this [France's budget] deficit and spend less. Europe is right to demand this of us but cannot at the same time demand us to increase our dues.

Nicolas Sarkozy

Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded.

Nicolas Chamfort

The poor are the blacks of Europe.

Nick Clegg

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.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

If you look at most of the Royal Houses in Europe, the inbreeding was pretty outstanding.

Nigel Lawson

In Europe, where climate change absolutism is at its strongest, the quasi-religion of greenery in general and the climate change issue in particular have filled the vacuum of organised religion, with reasoned questioning of its mantras regarded as a form of blasphemy.

Nigel Farage

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.

Nigel Farage

We know the costs of Europe. What are the benefits?

Nigel Farage

This is taking place inside Europe. This is taking place inside a once great nation. The nation that invented democracy. We are on the edge of total social breakdown. And frankly, as far as the euro is concerned and the austerity measures are concerned, the medicine is killing the patient.

Morris Dees

What the Nazis did to the Jews in Europe, plantation owners and law enforcement [officers] were doing to the African-Americans.

Antonis Samaras

The Greek people today voted for Greece to remain on its European path and in the eurozone.