E U Quotes

#1. We should believe in the strength and vitality of the values which constitute the E.U. and which neighbouring states can believe in and aspire to join.

Donald Tusk

#2. I can confirm that Poland should become a eurozone country, and not just because of the treaties that have been signed, but because I consider it of strategic interest both for Poland and the E.U.

Donald Tusk

#3. The E.U.'s Eastern Partnership programme is designed to bind the so-called focus states tightly to itself, shutting down the possibility of co-operation with Russia.

Sergei Lavrov

#4. It's not only the British voters who have doubts about European cooperation. There is skepticism in many other E.U. countries.

Mark Rutte

#5. If the E.U. allows itself to be priced out of the world economy, the next generation will not get jobs, living standards will decline, and the Union will lose the popular consent of the people of Europe.

George Osborne

#6. Most of the countries in the world are outside the E.U., and they are doing very nicely, thank you.

Nigel Lawson

#7. Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China.

John Bruton

#8. The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market; it is a guarantee of democracy, freedom, justice, and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees.

John Bruton

#9. There wasn't a Scottish nationalist MP elected at any general election when we were outside the E.U.

Michael Gove

#10. When the E.U. and the U.S. agree, other countries follow.

John Bruton

#11. Within the E.U., in a wider context, people are increasingly recognising the need to prevent the abuse of free movement.

Theresa May

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

John Bruton

#13. Taking her slick palm, he flattened it once more. And then with his free hand, he signed against her skin in slow, precise positions:
L.O.V.E.U.4.E.V.E.R

J.R. Ward

#14. Having led many negotiations with countries outside the E.U. in the past, we would never enter the same compromises and reach the same good outcomes with states that don't shoulder the responsibilities and costs of the common market.

Angela Merkel

#15. The pro-E.U. campaign is all too likely to be based on a fear of the unknown because in most people's lifetime, we have never been out of the E.U.

Nigel Lawson

#16. I know myself, from my own background, the E.U. depresses employment and destroys jobs. My father had a business destroyed by the common fisheries policy.

Michael Gove

#17. I think the U.K. would be perfectly successful as a standalone country, part of the European marketplace like Norway and Switzerland but without the expensive E.U. bureaucracy.

Jim Ratcliffe

#18. We have, in the E.U., a market rigged in favour of the rich and stacked against the poor, and I think that's wrong.

Michael Gove

#19. The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and analyze intelligence.

John Bruton

#20. My message is a simple one - the E.U. is not perfect, but Scotland's interests are best served by being a member.

Nicola Sturgeon

#21. The E.U. is the world's fastest growing democratic body.

John Bruton

#22. I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see.

Julian Assange

#23. I'll be arguing for Scotland to vote to stay in the E.U.

Nicola Sturgeon

#24. True, Putin's Russia does not dream of joining the E.U., but Russia's stability depends on preserving the European nature of its regime.

Ivan Krastev

#25. The E.U. is founded on the Treaties which apply only to the Member States who have agreed and ratified them.

Jose Manuel Barroso

#26. 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

#27. I am a passport-carrying citizen of the E.U.

Conrad Black

#28. The Office for Budget Responsibility correctly stay out of the political debate and do not assess the long-term costs and benefits of E.U. membership.

George Osborne

#29. For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E.U.

Jose Manuel Barroso

#30. The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.

Najib Razak

#31. While Israelis do not care too much about Europeans moral judgments, the E.U. is an important market for them, and European sanctions of any kind would be harmful to Israel.

Elliott Abrams

#32. We should not make the mistake of equating the E.U. with Europe. Outside the E.U., we wouldn't cease to be Europeans. But, an exit would definitely risk losing those opportunities for our children while growing no similar opportunities elsewhere.

Andrew Lansley

#33. We must not lose time, neither for dealing in a suitable way with the question of the United Kingdom's exit, nor for providing a new impetus for the E.U.

Francois Hollande

#34. Taken slightly historically, the turning point in the E.U. was actually the Single European Act, the Thatcher/Maastricht-era stuff, which was turning the E.U. into very much a market system.

Jeremy Corbyn

#35. I fought passionately to remain in the E.U., and I warned of the economic risks if we left the E.U.

George Osborne

#36. Le nez de Cle opa" tre: s'il e u" t e te plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait change . Cleopatra'snose: if it had beenshorter the whole face of the earth would have been different.

Blaise Pascal

#37. As part of the E.U., my children can have the freedom and the opportunity to work and live across Europe; to be ambitious in the world's largest market; and to access so much of the history, the culture and the opportunity which is our common European heritage.

Andrew Lansley

#38. I was very much surprised by the Johnson/Gove proposals to make it harder for Europeans to work in the U.K. if Britain were to vote to leave the E.U.

Mark Rutte

#39. I recognise that fishing is perhaps not the most high-employment industry in this country, but it's a symbol of what we lost when we entered the E.U.: control over national resources that, if we retained them, we could have husbanded in our interest and, indeed, in the interest of others.

Michael Gove

#40. I completely understand why people are concerned about immigration. There's no silver bullet, no one thing you can do to suddenly deal with all the problems and concerns with immigration, and that includes leaving the E.U.

Theresa May

#41. I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.

Igor Luksic

#42. The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined.

John Bruton

#43. In fighting the debt crisis, E.U. countries have enhanced co-operation and carried out reform with tremendous courage. This is laudable.

Li Keqiang

#44. If there is a vote in Britain to leave the E.U. there is a democratic imperative to provide Irish citizens with the right to vote in a border poll to end partition and retain a role in the E.U.

Martin McGuinness

#45. The E.U. cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe's current institutional infrastructure.

Ivan Krastev

#46. Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.

John Bruton

#47. There were some who wanted all the benefits of E.U. membership without any of the costs. I'm not sure that's very realistic.

George Osborne

#48. We can demonstrate, by our own example, how E.U. freedoms, including the freedom of nationals of other E.U. countries to come and work here, has enabled us to expand our economy.

John Bruton

#49. I believe the United Kingdom will be worse off outside the E.U. It will not have the influence it has in the world today.

Mark Rutte

#50. The U.S. - E.U. economic relationship dwarfs America's economic ties with China.

John Bruton

#51. China's reform and opening-up programme and Europe's integration process have both contributed significantly to global peace, development, and prosperity. China firmly supports the integration of Europe and regards the E.U. as a strategic partner that deserves our confidence.

Li Keqiang

#52. A number of countries around the world, and indeed the E.U. as a whole, have chosen not to allow the import from the U.S. of beef from cows fed a diet that includes the hormone ractopamine, because of the fairly grave health concerns.

Zac Goldsmith

#53. Leaving the E.U. was not the outcome that I wanted or campaigned, but now that democracy has spoken, we must act on that result. I will fully respect that result.

George Osborne

#54. We benefit tremendously from the E.U. Britain does very well in getting back E.U. money for the amount it puts in.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

#55. I have been supporting the European Union, but we are still a work in progress. We have to become more of a United States of Europe. We should talk about electing a president of the E.U., rather than having one selected from the heads of government.

George Papandreou

#56. As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.

Barry Eichengreen

#57. If you vote to leave the E.U ... we will have additional flexibility to help industries who really need it.

Michael Gove

#58. I think, instead of the pessimism of the Remain campaign, we have an opportunity to think of the next generation. If we have faith in their talent, in their generosity, in their hard work, we can, if we leave the E.U., ensure the next generation makes this country once more truly great.

Michael Gove

#59. Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world.

Peter Mandelson

#60. Education and research is national, not E.U., business.

Tim Hunt

#61. 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

#62. I am absolutely convinced that the E.U. will still be around. I am convinced the U.K. will be sitting at that table and not negotiating an exit, but being there to stay.

Mark Rutte

#63. For years, we have been asking the E.U. to create something similar to the Russia-NATO council. Not in order to simply exchange opinions and work out recommendations, but to make decisions.

Sergei Lavrov

#64. That's where my job comes in. Getting the E.U. and U.S. to agree.

John Bruton

#65. The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the E.U. and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true.

Atifete Jahjaga

#66. France wants Britain to remain in the E.U.; indeed, how can we imagine that friendly nation that is our ally and played a role on the international stage could be outside the E.U.?

Francois Hollande

#67. 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

#68. The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Najib Razak

#69. There are lots of jobs and investment in Scotland dependent on our membership of the E.U. single market.

Nicola Sturgeon

#70. We've stated very clearly that no negotiating chapters between the European Union and Turkey will be concluded before the Ankara Protocol is complied with: that's to say before Turkey grants all E.U. member states, including Cyprus, access to its ports.

Angela Merkel

#71. I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just hostile to the whole European idea.

Neil Kinnock

#72. Most people would agree that the E.U. is too bureaucratic, not transparent or democratic enough and that it often interferes too much in matters that are best left to national governments.

Nicola Sturgeon

#73. We need Britain not only to stay in the E.U. but to be very active in it.

Mark Rutte

#74. Reducing net E.U. migration need not mean undermining the principle of free movement. When it was first enshrined, free movement meant the freedom to move to a job, not the freedom to cross borders to look for work or claim benefits.

Theresa May

#75. 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

#76. We need to bring control into movement of people coming into the U.K. from the E.U.

Theresa May

#77. The most pressing and significant problems in the global economy are unsustainable structural issues with regard to the E.U. - fiscal deficits and the structure of the E.U. itself.

Henry Paulson

#78. Regardless of our ambitions to become part of the E.U., we have to keep in mind that Turkey is also a very strong voice that can represent the needs of our region in wider terms in global platforms.

Igor Luksic

#79. We have to ask ourselves, is it really right that the E.U. should just continue to expand, conferring upon all new member states all the rights of membership?

Theresa May

#80. Germany has traditionally played a very constructive role regarding E.U. ties with Russia and the West as a whole with Russia.

Sergei Lavrov

#81. This clutching hold of the E.U. is a sign of a lack of national self-confidence - which is not healthy.

Nigel Lawson

#82. It is in my heart that I believe most strongly that our future is within a reformed E.U. - not least because we now live in a global marketplace.

Andrew Lansley

#83. The majority people in this country are suffering because of our membership of the E.U.

Michael Gove

#84. There must be no attempts to remain inside the E.U., no attempts to rejoin it through the back door, and no second referendum.

Theresa May

#85. Those who claim that to leave the E.U. would damage the City are the very same as those who in the past confidently predicted, with a classic failure of understanding, that the City would be gravely damaged if the U.K. failed to adopt the euro as its currency.

Nigel Lawson

#86. Did I want Britain to remain in the E.U.? Yes. Did I fear the consequences if we quit? Yes. Did I argue passionately for that during the referendum? Absolutely I did.

George Osborne

#87. It is high time that the E.U.'s internal market delivered substantially lower communications charges for consumers and business people traveling abroad. A mobile-phone customer should not be charged a higher tariff just because he
or she
is traveling abroad.

Viviane Reding

#88. The E.U.-U.S. Open Aviation Area agreement therefore envisages the establishment of a broadly similar cooperation framework between the Commission and the Department of Transportation.

Neelie Kroes

#89. In an era of billion-person countries and trillion-pound economies, we need to find ways to amplify our voice. We are most likely to be heard when the Chinese negotiate with a £10 trillion E.U., not a £1.5 trillion Britain.

Douglas Alexander

#90. Jamie Dimon and J.P. Morgan are contributing millions to the Remain campaign because they do very nicely, thank you, out of the E.U.

Michael Gove

#91. What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going to have enormous impact on America, that's a very big trading partner of ours, and people own securities around the world in this day and age.

Michael Bloomberg

#92. If the discussion centres on the essential principle of the E.U., the free movement of people and the ability to make decisions together, in that case, we don't want treaty change.

Francois Hollande

#93. I want there to be another independence referendum at some stage. I want Scotland to be independent, but I wouldn't choose to have it happen because England votes to come out of the E.U.

Nicola Sturgeon

#94. The body consists of three parts: the brainium, the borax and the abominable cavity. The brainium contains the brain. The borax contains the heart and lungs and the abominable cavity contains the bowels of which there are five: a, e, i, o, u.

Tom Magliozzi

#95. My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.

Oliver E. Williamson

#96. We travel a lot from Australia and deliberately route ourselves through the U.A.E. because my whole family loves the place.

Fiona McIntosh

#97. The "Success-type" personality is composed of: S-ense of direction U - nderstanding C-ourage C-harity E-steem S-elf-Confidence S-elf-Acceptance.

Maxwell Maltz

#98. Mainstream Jewish intellectuals became 'pro'-Israel after the June 1967 war when Israel became the U.S.A.' s strategic asset in the Middle East, i.e., when it was safe and reaped benefits. To credit them with ideological conviction is, in my opinion, very naive.

Norman Finkelstein

#99. If you understand the independent worker, the self-employed professional, the freelancer, the e-lancer, the temp, you understand how work and business in the U.S. operate today.

Daniel H. Pink

#100. S-U-C-I-D-E
Do You want to end everything with only six alphabets?

Laksh Kishore