Babacan Quotes

#1. The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.

John K. Fairbank

#2. When you feel homesick,' he said, 'just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.

Donna Tartt

#3. The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.

Ali Babacan

#4. Arrows of hate have been aimed at me too, but they have never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world with which I have no connection whatsoever.

Albert Einstein

#5. Turkey's economy is powerful enough to tackle tough times.

Ali Babacan

#6. A country which has a population 99% as their faith in Islam can also be a country which are subscribing to the universal values of the E.U.

Ali Babacan

#7. Population is a strong driver of the economy as well as the quality of the labor force.

Ali Babacan

#8. Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target.

Ali Babacan

#9. Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy.

Ali Babacan

#10. The E.U. initially decided to end the isolation of Turkish Cyprus, to balance the accession of Cyprus. But the E.U. has not carried through on its promise.

Ali Babacan

#11. When Daniela drinks, three things happen: her native accent begins to bleed through, she becomes belligerently kind, and she tends toward hyperbole.

Blake Crouch

#12. It is unfair to ask Turkey to make a unilateral concession to take goods from Cyprus within the customs union when the E.U. is not open to northern Cyprus.

Ali Babacan

#13. The lost unicorn is in our presence!!

Olivia

#14. Turkey's energy bill due to imports will fall with the increase in use of renewable energy sources. We have no control over the prices of petroleum and natural gas.

Ali Babacan

#15. Whatever the scenario, the dynamism of developing nations, their demographics and competitive power are great sources for superiority.

Ali Babacan

#16. Northern Iraq has become, economically, a natural extension of Turkey.

Ali Babacan

#17. Turkey is going through an incredible economic, political and social transformation. What is most important is that Turkey has been the owner of this transformation. Ownership has been the key to success.

Ali Babacan

#18. Turkey shares Europe's fundamental values of democracy and the rule of law.

Ali Babacan

#19. Turkey has a young and growing population. Until recently, this was perceived as a problem, a burden that Turkey would bring to the E.U. But it is, in fact, an asset that can help the population deficit of the E.U. and the economic growth of Turkey.

Ali Babacan

#20. Turkey will not let Turkish territory or airspace be used in any activity that could harm the security or safety of Syria.

Ali Babacan

#21. We have been talking with leaders: Change is coming; you can no longer have a closed regime with an open society - satellites, social media, the Internet - you have this kind, this kind of society moving forward, and you are running this closed regime; this is not sustainable. This cannot continue.

Ali Babacan

#22. Greece is not an easy country to do business in.

Ali Babacan

#23. Openly speaking, the only formula that will save Greece's future is more trade with Turkey and more investment with Turkey.

Ali Babacan

#24. Islam and democracy can function together.

Ali Babacan

#25. In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#26. 'The Economist' is a biased organization.

Ali Babacan

#27. Leadership is found in the action to defeat that which would defeat you ... You are made by the struggles you choose.

C. T. Vivian

#28. My words wear no parachutes as they fall out of my mouth.

Tahereh Mafi

#29. I had decided to be a magician well before I decided to be a writer. I was the little boy who would get up on-stage and do magic wearing a fake mustache, which would fall off during the performance. I'm still trying to perform those tricks. Now I do it with writing.

Ray Bradbury

#30. I invented the psychological histories and the relationship between Jack and Susan Stanton. I didn't know anything about the Clintons. I don't know more about the Clintons' marriage than you do.

Joe Klein

#31. Those looking from Europe see Turkey as an economic success, whereas others from the Middle East see Turkey as a democratic success.

Ali Babacan

#32. Leave history to historians.

Ali Babacan