European Countries Quotes - Page 2

• Europe is war. Economic war. It is the increase of hostilities between the countries. Germans are denigrated as being cruel, the Greeks as fraudsters, the French as lazy. Ms. Merkel can't travel to any European country without being protected by hundreds of police. That is not brotherhood.

  Marine Le Pen

  Country, War, Europe

  Source: www.eunews.it

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• Just imagine, more than half of the young people in the European Union do not have jobs. How can one explain that? How can one explain that to a working family, that produces goods and services, those who produce the olive oil that is a a main source of food in any European country? They humbly work the land with great effort and then the little resources they had saved in banks have now become dust simply because they did not have the means to withstand inflation produced by the adjustment policies.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Country, Jobs, Mean

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• An American professor complained that a crypto-Marxist like me was invited in the USA, and I was denounced by the press in Eastern European countries for being an accomplice of the dissidents. None of these descriptions is important by itself; taken together, on the other hand, they mean something. And I must admit that I rather like what they mean.

  Michel Foucault

  Country, Taken, Mean

  Source: www.nicklewis.org

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• I am actually quite encouraged and I think, actually, the UK is coping with globalisation a lot better than most other European countries. And that is reflected in the fact that (whilst of course there are people who are still unemployed) our unemployment rate is low and (whilst of course we need to export more) we are attracting a huge amount of inward investment into Britain.

  George Osborne

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.economist.com

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• Membership in the European Community, now the European Union, has enabled Ireland to re-find its sense of participation - cultural, political, social - at the European level. I think that also opens up possibilities for Ireland as a European country to look outward - to look particularly, for example, at countries to which a lot of Irish people emigrated, to our links - our human links - with the United States, with Canada, with Australia, with New Zealand. And to look also, because of our history, at our links to the developing countries.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Thinking, Australia

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Frankly, I'd love to see a multiparty system, like we have in some of our European countries. But I'm not sure how to get there.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Country, Not Sure

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• Look, there is parliamentary democracy in most European countries, there is parliamentary democracy in Japan, there is parliamentary democracy in many countries, but in the United States, for some reason, the State is organized differently, there is quite a stringent presidential republic.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Japan, Presidential

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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• Not so great in England at the moment; in an online poll we came last, we actually came bottom of European countries for quality of life, because of things like the weather, obviously, late retirement, poor holiday, poor public services, poor health service; it's basically just a kind of grey, godless wilderness, full of cold pies and broken dreams.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Dream, Country

  "Bill Bailey: Dandelion Mind". Documentary, Comedy, 2010.

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• The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen--he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus of overpopulous European countries, are far behind the wild man in delicacy of feeling or natural courtesy.

  Susanna Moodie

  Country, Native American, Men

  Susanna Moodie (1852). “Roughing it in the Bush: Or, Life in Canada”, p.11, London : R. Bentley

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• This issue of expanding the reach of international criminal law by reliance on the use of Universal Jurisdiction by domestic courts needs to be balanced against the injustice of according impunity to those with strong geopolitical backing. It is notable that several western European countries backtracked on UJ after threats of retaliatory moves by the United States and Israel. There is no doubt that the domain of UJ is a geopolitical battleground.

  Richard A. Falk

  Country, Strong, Moving

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Membership in the European Community, now the European Union, has helped Ireland to take its place as a European country with all the member states, including Britain. It has therefore helped the maturing of a good bilateral relationship with Britain, lifting part of the burden of history.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Community, Unions

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• In many European countries we have populist indirect democratic systems. The people elect, in a proportionate manner, a parliament. The parliament with all its parties is representative of the political opinions among the citizens. It is reasonable to claim that the people rule itself through the political institutions.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Country, Party, Political Opinions

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Russia itself is a European country, and not just because our major political and economic centres are in Europe, but because Russian culture is primarily European culture.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Russia, Europe

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• The fact that the Church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women, is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Church, Facts, Constitution

  "Cardinal Ratzinger on the Banishment of God From Public Life". zenit.org. April 11, 2005.

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• When you look at the dominance of Notre Dame, the love of Mary in almost every European country, psychologically, had to come from this recognition of the feminine mediating divine love. And for many people in history, it was clearly the preferred way because women raised most people, not men, so their first experience of unconditional love, of touch, of caring, of nurturing very often came from a woman - that got easily transferred to Mary.

  Richard Rohr

  Country, Caring, Unconditional Love

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• Trump will have to take up juggling if he goes ahead and scraps the agreement with Iran and at the same time, seeks to avoid alienating Russia, and quite possibly France and Germany. These European countries are already nervous about what the Trump presidency means with respect to the future of the post-World War II international order that has essentially kept the peace on the continent since 1945. This order is far from perfect, of course, and under pressure from other sources, especially due to the rise of chauvinism and European Trumpism.

  Richard A. Falk

  Country, War, Mean

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Now, some of the most dangerous places for women to be in the world are modern, Western, rich European countries. Why? One reason. Islamic immigration - it's got to stop.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Country, Islamic, World

  Source: thestagblog.com

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• If European countries want to cater to U.S. foreign policy interests, I don't think that they stand to gain anything.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Thinking, Want

  Source: russialist.org

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• I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Thinking, Issues, Dimensions

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• Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian country, neighbor to Africa, Black Sea country, Caspian Sea, all these.

  Ahmet Davutoglu

  Country, Sea, Turkeys

  Interview with Marc Grossman, www.cfr.org. April 14, 2010.

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• Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention without politics to nominate a leader who's out in front of nobody? Maybe our national mindlessness is the very thing that keeps us from turning into one of those smelly European countries full of pseudo-reds and crypto-fascists and greens who dress like forest elves.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Country, America, Leader

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• There is nothing wrong with us sitting down and arguing that issue, that we are a European country.

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, Issues, Scary

  "The Bigotry Of Pat Buchanan". www.mediamatters.org. July 29, 2011.

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• I was playing catch with the European audience.

  Charles Olson

  Audience

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• I have on the one hand a hatred and on the other a yearning for Vienna. I left when I was nine years old because I was Jewish. And even before 1938, the anti-Semitism in Austria was probably deeper than it was in Germany or in other European countries.

  Eric Kandel

  Country, Hands, Years

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Country, Mean, Expression

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