Top 100 Eu Quotes
#1. My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.
Boris Johnson
#2. We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU.
Nigel Farage
#3. The EU should help the emergence of "organized multipolarity" in the currently non-polar world.
Laurent Fabius
#4. EU expansion is, unfortunately, continuing without a constitution, as a gradual process of standardization - and that's far more dangerous. It is very difficult to slow down this process, which is being pushed forward without significant public participation.
Vaclav Klaus
#5. There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms is self-defeating. Anyway, the Muslims have their own enlightenment.
James Buchan
#6. The immediate future may be determined by a race between the United Kingdom and the EU over which beats the other to a major crisis.
Norman Davies
#7. The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.
William Hague
#8. Adding an overarching tier of tyrants the EU to European governments has benefited Europeans as a second hangman enhances the health of a condemned man.
Ilana Mercer
#9. I am disgusted at the way May has been speaking. The EU nationals living in the UK came here legally and they have protected rights.
Nigel Farage
#10. People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say.
William Hague
#11. All the people I talk to, increasingly, can see that the emperor has got no clothes. The case for leaving [the EU] is now overwhelming.
Boris Johnson
#12. The [EU] Council of Ministers will have far more power over the budgets of member states than the federal government in the United States has over the budget of Texas.
Jean-Claude Trichet
#13. The idea that the EU is somehow the guarantor of peace on the continent - that is in itself rash, in my view, and risks undermining the vital role of Nato.
Boris Johnson
#14. Stories are invented: Juncker wants to introduce the euro everywhere or immediately deepen the EU - although I publicly stated the opposite that same day.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#16. There is a growing frustration that the EU is seen as something that is done to people rather than acting on their behalf. And this is being intensified by the very solutions required to resolve the economic problems.
David Cameron
#17. Leaving the EU isn't the answer to Britain's problems.
Sadiq Khan
#18. You do not need to be in the single market we do not need that we are the word's fifth biggest economy. Most economies can agree free trade deals within two years the EU is taking 10 years or never at all, why?
Andrea Leadsom
#19. It's wrong to focus only on economic cooperation and then to hope that a sufficiently stable system will become democratic more or less by itself. The EU needs to urge its neighbors to pursue both economic stability and political modernization in equal measures.
Alvaro De Vasconcelos
#20. It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU.
David Cameron
#21. The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you can delve into in pursuit of a particular fact, or crack open for entertainment at virtually any page.
Daniel Hannan
#22. Croatia did not want Europe to be divided as to the start of Croatia's EU entry talks.
Stjepan Mesic
#23. I have another explanation [of Brexit]: In its 43 years of EU membership, Britain has never been able to decide whether it wants to fully or only partially belong to the EU.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#24. With the EU taking in ten more countries and adopting a new Constitution, organisations need more than ever intelligent professional help in engaging with the EU institutions.
Nick Clegg
#25. Britain could make her own way in the world, outside the EU, if we chose to do so. So could any other Member State. But the question we will have to ask ourselves is this: is that the very best future for our country? We will have to weigh carefully where our true national interest lies.
David Cameron
#26. If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow.
John Bruton
#27. The delight of populists and the horror of the European Union, Switzerland voted in favour of quotas for EU migrants.
Anonymous
#28. I think that the EU with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment.
Angela Merkel
#29. Turkey has in interest in finding agreement on more permissive visa requirements, it wants to be recognized as a safe country of origin and it wants to finally return to constructive EU accession negotiations. We Europeans decide all of those things together.
Martin Schulz
#30. If you want a more democratic EU, communication has to be among its core tasks. There should be a legal foundation for it: Fifty years after the founding of the European project, communication belongs in the constitution.
Margot Wallstrom
#31. Matt Le Tissier had firm views about Austria's reluctance to allow Turkey full membership of the EU last Saturday, I seem to recall.
Jeff Stelling
#32. When my father began his work in the 1970s it was a very different EU. I pay tribute to what he did. But it has now become a very different proposition: the United States of Europe.
Boris Johnson
#33. It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU.
Phyllis Schlafly
#34. We had a lot of international help especially from the EU and USA, which helped us to get out of this phase of emergency, to give some dynamism to Kosova.
Ibrahim Rugova
#35. Given that Europe's legacy to the world consists in the two great goods of Christianity and democracy it is hardly surprising if the EU no longer has the endorsement of the European people, even if it has created a network of clients upon whose support it can always rely.
Roger Scruton
#36. The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
Bill Gates
#38. I am very proud that Britain has helped to lead a stronger case on climate change in the EU and the EU has led the case across the world.
Liz Kendall
#39. Talks have reached a critical stage and negotiators need to reach a deal on agriculture in the next two weeks if efforts to restart the Doha round by the end of the year are to succeed. Some speak of a deadlock in the talks, .. I prefer to talk of a padlock, and the key is in the hands of the EU.
Celso Amorim
#40. I see no issue with [Donald] Trump spending 48 hours in Scotland.Whether accidental or intentional, the fact that he was there when Britain voted to leave the EU was a good thing for him.
Christopher Michael Cillizza
#41. New EU embassies lack the expertise in the field of culture and given the budget cuts in all Member States it is important to confront this challenge together.
Pierre Vimont
#42. Our national prosperity is built on our open borders. However, the reality is that if a points system is introduced in the UK it would be unavoidable for us in the Netherlands to implement similar proposals - and inevitable that many other EU countries would follow suit.
Mark Rutte
#43. The principle of equal pay for equal work is written in the EU Treaties since 1957. It is high time that it is put in practice everywhere.
Viviane Reding
#44. The EU report speaks for itself. The statement in my view shows that the mission has turned out to be something worse than a farce, ... We shall in the coming days and weeks see what we can do to expose the pack of lies and innuendoes that characterise the garbage in this report.
Meles Zenawi
#45. This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S.
Mario Monti
#46. My vision is to have an independent Kosovo, democratic, with a politically tolerant society and with a solid economy, integrated into the EU, the NATO and to continue with our good relations with the USA.
Ibrahim Rugova
#47. The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and transnational crime, advancing trade liberalization, and combating piracy and intellectual property violations.
John Bruton
#48. I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.
Iain Duncan Smith
#49. Within ten years 80% of our economic legislation, perhaps even fiscal and social as well' would come from the EU.
Jacques Delors
#51. EU didn't advance our [Eastern Europe] democracy by a single millimeter.
Vaclav Klaus
#52. It is an illusion to think that [EU] states can hold on to their autonomy.
Hans Tietmeyer
#53. The EU will not stop wars: it wants an army to fight them.
John Redwood
#54. There are certainly major differences between Poland's policies and those of the old EU countries. Debates are going on in Brussels over a shared foreign policy and even a shared foreign minister.
Lech Kaczynski
#55. There is definitely a mood in the party for making sure that two cabinet heavyweights we have got, who come from different traditions, different sides of the EU referendum campaign, Theresa May and Michael Gove - it would be right to put them to the party in the country.
Nicky Morgan
#56. One way in which the referendum could be overturned is the following way. If the MPs (Members of Parliament) forced a general election and a party campaigned on a promise to keep Britain in the EU, got elected and then they claimed that the election mandate topped the referendum one.
Brendon Rogers
#57. The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.
William Hague
#58. As somebody who campaigned to leave the EU, I believe we have a bright future ahead of us- but we have to get it right.
Chris Grayling
#59. I really and definitely think that France has the capability to come forward. The EU should maintain their own position, without influence.
Ali Larijani
#60. Boris [ Johnson]and Dave [Cameron] gnawed each other's testicles [during the Tory civil war which blighted the EU referendum].
Ken Livingstone
#61. I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU.
Francois Hollande
#62. The EU lacks a story. For previous generations, the peace argument was a sufficient. But what story do I tell my 20-year-old son? How do I explain to him that we need the EU for the future?
Margot Wallstrom
#63. But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency.
John Hutton
#64. In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.
Catherine Ashton
#65. I am very grateful to my colleagues for their support. There is a big job before us: to unite our party and the country, to negotiate the best possible deal as we leave the EU, and to make Britain work for everyone.
Theresa May
#66. Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.
William Hague
#67. Just as the UK should withdraw from the EU and go back to the original European Economic Area principles of engagement with the continent, so also should it establish a free trade Commonwealth Market.
Przemek Skwirczynski
#68. The key problem is the debt restructuring in the euro zone. As long as the debt burden is not reduced, there is no chance of the weaker EU countries regaining competitiveness.
George Soros
#69. The British people voted for change.They sent us a clear instruction that they want Britain to leave the European Union and end the supremacy of EU law.
Michael Gove
#70. One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to change their laws to enable mass surveillance.
Edward Snowden
#71. Just as I believe that Britain should want to remain in the EU so the EU should want us to stay.
David Cameron
#72. Czech Republic is an important part of central Europe. It's clear that we must participate in European integration. I am convinced that the Czech Republic - or, in the past, Czechoslovakia - would have been one of the founding members of the EU if it hadn't been for the communist takeover in 1948.
Vaclav Klaus
#73. One thing which frustrates me about state pensions is the disparity between EU countries.
Geoff Capes
#74. We are not leaving the EU, we are rejoining the rest of the world.
Liam Fox
#75. Leaving [from EU] will allow us to return real democratic control to important areas of national life; from international trade, the right to work and live in Britain to business regulation.
Gisela Stuart
#76. Globalisation, which benefits only multi-national companies and takes away all sense of local or national pride and identity, is the biggest threat facing all the member states of the EU.
Steve Blake
#77. Of course former colonial powers are always more present and influential. They're the ones who need to defend the EU's values on the frontlines.
Alvaro De Vasconcelos
#78. The idea seems to be to use the next treaty talks to strike a grand bargain: Britain will be helpful to those states wishing to establish a fiscal union among themselves if, in exchange, we can amicably derogate from the aspects of the EU which we dislike.
Daniel Hannan
#79. Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out and held accountable.
William Hague
#80. I think us leaving would have an enormous and bad effect on the rest of the EU. The EU would respond by deepening integration and becoming more of a 'political project'. It would not only be damaging ourselves but also the kind of Europe we want.
David Cameron
#81. But Iran has gone far beyond what is necessary for a purely civilian programme. It has concealed several nuclear facilities from the International Atomic Energy Agency, played hide-and-seek with the international community, and rejected all offers of co-operation from the U.S., the EU, and others.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
#82. Of course, no-one thinks the EU is perfect. In recent years, the pace of social reform has slowed. But staying in offers the chance to rebuild a vision of Europe for workers, regardless of the passport they hold.
Frances O'Grady
#83. The vast majority of Muslim residents of the United Kingdom voted to stay in the EU. And the balance of the British population voted to leave the European Union.
Rush Limbaugh
#84. NATO and the EU have also agreed on permanent arrangements on consultation and cooperation between themselves.
Lord Robertson
#85. U.S. companies earn more from their investments in the EU than in the rest of the world combined.
John Bruton
#86. When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.
Nigel Farage
#87. I admire [Alex] Salmond in many ways but my problem with him has always been this independence thing within the EU, which is rubbish.
Nigel Farage
#89. I want the European Union to be a success. And I want a relationship between Britain and the EU that keeps us in it.
David Cameron
#90. Our participation in the single market, and our ability to help set its rules is the principal reason for our membership of the EU. So it is a vital interest for us to protect the integrity and fairness of the single market for all its members.
David Cameron
#91. The EU should have consolidated its different presences and purposes in Kosovo earlier.
Emma Bonino
#92. Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.
Ben Stein
#93. No one imposes things on anyone in Europe. That's not my notion, nor is it my temperament. The EU has always functioned under the banner of respect, equilibrium and trust.
Francois Hollande
#94. The problem with us EU politicians is that we approach everything with cool rationality, and then wonder why we don't win people over emotionally.
Martin Schulz
#95. What we should be doing in the EU as a whole is more economic integration in the single market, rather than less.
Nick Clegg
#96. More than 50% of significant new regulations that impact on business in the UK now emanate from the EU.
John Hutton
#97. To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of ... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries.
Aleksander Kwasniewski
#98. It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain.
Nigel Farage
#99. A jolt is necessary. Europe must reaffirm it values of freedom, solidarity, peace. The EU must be understood and controlled by its citizens. I will do everything to secure profound change rather than decline.
Francois Hollande
#100. Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It must be clear what the priorities on the agenda are.
Angela Merkel
