Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dominique de Villepin

China protects the Chinese, America protects the Americans, I don't see why Europe should not protect the Europeans.

James Peterson

So far the protectionists have won in the European Union,

David Walton

Boston has a lot of European qualities to it, and one of them is the charm of its above-ground trollies.

Fernando Torres

After winning the European Championship with Spain, I know exactly how it feels to win a major trophy, and I know that, if we can win at Liverpool, it will feel the same or even better than it did with Spain.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.

For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.

Adam Cole

Trade with Europe is being hit by the strength of sterling and the weakness of the euro. European exporters are winning market share at U.K. companies' expense.

Ruth Rendell

unusual thing: a European thriller writer whose work holds up as literature.

Wolfgang Schauble

The presidency of the Euro group is an interesting and important task.

Wolfgang Schauble

If we were to have a presidential election in Europe it would be an event that would spark a huge interest in people from Lisbon to Helsinki, just like national elections. And it would create a completely different political setting in Europe.

Alexander Hamilton

By a steady adherence to the Union we may hope, erelong, to become the arbiter of Europe in America, and to be able to incline the balance of European competitions in this part of the world as our interest may dictate.

Adolf Hitler

It [the Sudetenland] is the last territorial claim that I have to make in Europe.

Adolf Hitler

I was Europe's last chance.

Anibal Cavaco Silva

Integration is the most important asset Europe has, and the key component to European integration is the euro.

Ally Carter

If it works, it works,' Kat told him. 'And if it doesn't?' he asked. She looked at him. 'If it doesn't, then I've heard Monaco has the nicest prisons in all of Europe.' 'It does,' both Hamish and Angus said in unison. And with that, it was decided.

Alistair Cooke

It used to be said that you had to know what was happening in America because it gave us a glimpse of our future. Today, the rest of America, and after that Europe, had better heed what happens in California, for it already reveals the type of civilisation that is in store for all of us.

Andrzej Wajda

In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.

Daddy Yankee

'Limbo' has been one of the greatest hits of my career. A great response all over the world, not just Latinos but people in Europe and America.

Martti Ahtisaari

We are convinced that Turkey would be a useful member of the European Union.

Daniel Hannan

The statistics might have a Eurosceptic cast, but they are not exactly a fun read. Few of us want to wade through ONS graphs or European Commission tables.

There is just unbelievable interest and the support of the fans throughout Euro 2004 has been very moving.

Ben Miller

We are pleased that the Japanese Patent Office and the European Patent Office have upheld the validity of these important patents. The confirmation of these inventions strengthens our patent portfolio in Japan and Europe and emphasizes the international value of the many licenses granted by Qualcomm.

European and American banks are conservative in the sense that they don't come at their full strength to markets where we are; that leaves us an opportunity to be successful.

As Turkish entrepreneurs perform well in Iraq, the Iraqis will have more confidence in Turkish contractors than in some European company they do not know.

Because in Russia you were able to triumph with the help of a large class of poor peasants, you represent things in such a way, as if we in Western Europe are also going to have that help.

The goal of the government is to guarantee the place of Greece in the eurozone against those who want to undermine it.

Yanis Varoufakis

The euro is a hybrid of a fixed exchange-rate regime, like the 1980s ERM or the 1930s gold standard, and a state currency.

Japanese is a very strange foreign language for European people.

Giles Foden

To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.

Zubin Mehta

If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.

Adam Smith

The retinue of a grandee in China or Indostan accordingly is, by all accounts, much more numerous and splendid than that of the richest subjects of Europe.

Western Europe will be flattish this year. After a consolidation there is typically a period of slowdown when the operators are considering their positions.

Dmitry Rogozin

Western ambassadors have probably become scared and are trying to prove that the problem with ultra-right groups is now facing not only western Europe but Russia as well.