Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antonis Samaras

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

The impact on the euro from last week's rate hike is evaporating ... There's nothing to intensify rate hike expectations in the euro zone.

A half-point move by the Fed would push the euro down to new lows.

You've got to put this in context, ... I think they (the critics) would be more worried if the euro had gone up 12 percent instead of fallen 12 percent (from its launch level). We've got everyone trying to manipulate a weaker currency, but when you've actually got one, it's criticized.

The truth does not lie with the Human Rights Watch. It lies with Poland, Romania and all the governments in Europe which might have information about these activities.

Natalie Maines

This is our first time back in Europe since the 'incident.

The hope that Germany would be a shining European example for accelerated reforms has been dashed,

John Bruton

We in Ireland have not been immune from the bigotry and the indifference which manifested itself in Europe this century

John Bruton

U.S. companies rely on the European market for more than half of their global foreign profits.

John Bruton

Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.

John Bright

This regard for the liberties of Europe, this care at one time for the protestant interest, this excessive love for the balance of power, is neither more nor less than a gigantic system of outdoor relief for the aristocracy of Great Britain.

Luther Allison

Well, I first started going to Europe in the late '70s.

Bo Burnham

The U.K. and Europe in general seem to be a lot more patient. The U.S. are expecting 'joke joke joke joke joke joke joke.' They don't actually sit and listen to you.

J. M. Coetzee

I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.

Ryanair's biggest achievement? Bringing low fares to Europe and still lowering em. Biggest failure? Hiring me.

The European Union spends most of its time either suing me, torturing me, criticizing me or condemning me for lowering the cost of air travel all over Europe.

Michael Mandelbaum

Certainly, protecting oppressed people, stopping ethnic conflict and promoting responsible governance are worthy goals. But none is as important for American security and prosperity as keeping the peace in the Middle East, Europe and East Asia.

The natural geopolitical arrangement is for Europe to be part of Eurasia, especially for Germany to develop trade and investment relationships with Russia.

Randy Newman

Asia's crowded and Europe's too old, Africa is far too hot and Canada's too cold. And South America stole our name, let's drop the big one.

Ramsey Clark

The U.S. has in its stockpiles more nuclear bombs, chemical and biological weapons, more aircraft, rockets and delivery systems in number and sophistication than the rest of the world combined. Included are twenty commissioned Trident II nuclear submarines any one of which could destroy Europe.

George W. Bush

The American people are proud to welcome your majesty back to the United States, a nation you've come to know very well. After all you've dined with 10 U.S. presidents. You've helped our nation celebrate its bicentennial in 17 -in 1976

George Soros

I admire Chancellor Merkel for her leadership qualities, but she is leading Europe in the wrong direction.

George Soros

The bureaucratic method of building an integrated Europe has exhausted its potential.

George Soros

There is a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe. The policies of the Bush administration and the Sharon administration contribute to that. It's not specifically anti-Semitism, but it does manifest itself in anti-Semitism as well.

George Soros

The integration of Europe was very much led by a Germany that was always willing to pay a little bit extra to reach a compromise that everybody accepted, because Germany was so eager to get European support for reunification. That was called the "farsighted vision," which created the European Union.

George Orwell

A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today

Gene Tierney

We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.

They are very high on him. He's not going to get the reps there, but I wouldn't be surprised if they sent him to Europe to play.

George Cohen

They were a very good side and quite a power in Europe in those days. They had some very, very good players, Eusebio of course... They were a good technical side.

The yield differential is going to limit any real upside for the euro right now.

George Canning

Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves onevery occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us.

Christopher Dawson

The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms

Christian Lous Lange

Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.