Explore Quotes on Europe

For people familiar with Eastern Europe, Marci Shore's 'The Taste of Ashes' is, in spite of its subject matter, delicious. A professor at Yale with much experience in Eastern Europe, she writes with great sureness of touch, weaving personal recollections with intellectual commentary and ideas with emotions, including her own.

France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a 'third force,' independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.

The trails in South Africa are completely different to Europe: dusty and loose surface.

I think it's clear to see that Lyon plan to continue to win the Champions League and be the best team in Europe.

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

I love Europe! France is wonderful. It should be. We've subsidised it for 40 years.

Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?

I remember when we ignored Europe and we were totally committed to the Commonwealth and the former Empire, and thought imperial preference was the only thing which enabled us to survive, that was a mistake, and it's a similar mistake to feel Britain can't be a hugely successfully country - economically and in any other way - outside the E.U.

Britain's destiny lies in Europe.

One of the things about George III is that he was aware that the monarchy was slipping away. There was revolution in the air all over Europe. Because of the unpopularity of his predecessors, one of the things he wanted to do was to establish some sort of credibility to the monarchy.

London has a centrifugal pull on talent, investment and business from the rest of Europe and the world. That brings benefits to the broader U.K. economy.

I live between Europe, America and Asia.

President Chavez has always been a loyal friend of Gaddafi, assassinated in the crudest way possible. Europe should think about the bombings and the destruction of Libya that filled the country with terrorists. Who's truly ruling Libya's military and sending thousands of armed men to fight in Syria? It's Al Qaeda.

My message to France and Europe is that we will make sure Venezuela won't witness the rise of another Pinochet. And we will do it the democratic way.

France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden... something of which I am not proud.

The Liberal Democrat Party and the Conservative Party come at things very differently when it comes to Europe. When it comes to political reform, we have a much greater tradition in the Liberal Democrats of social justice and fairness than the Conservatives do.

Schengen cannot survive without the most dramatic reform, and the external borders of Europe must be rapidly strengthened.

I think to leave Europe would be a threat on the one hand to our economic security and on the other our national security.

My job is to be an MP. It's not just about Europe.

Austria was the last country in Europe to ever put the stage show of 'The Sound of Music' on.

You can spend an entire summer in Europe, and no one will ask you what you do for a living.