European Quotes

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become protectionist and nationalist in the way we buy things but we think we could do a lot more to promote British business through procurement.

The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.

Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution.

The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved.

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.

I think I had a more European outlook about the body and sex. The body is in no way dirty, and sex is something beautiful to give to and share with a lover. It has nothing to do with promiscuity, because I only believe in being in love with one man at a time.

I am a committed European; a united Europe is Romania's future.

I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free.

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

During the past 30 years, European governments have provided more than $15 billion in the form of low- and no-cost loans to Airbus for the specific purpose of developing new aircraft lines.

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.

I've created a bridge between European electronic culture and urban American culture, and I've worked with established brands.

I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers.

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.

There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.

While there used to be one or two Pops orchestras, now there are all kinds of European orchestras that suddenly look upon this as a golden wand that can enable them to make money recording this music.

We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.

I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.

We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.

I want to tell stories about Europe - I feel profoundly European, I don't feel like an American.

We don't want protectionism at the heart of the European Union.

We want to repeal the ObamaCare tax. We want to save middle class families from European health care. And that's what we're going to do as a party and that's what Mitt Romney will do on day one.

If the euro becomes a factor promoting Europe's drifting apart, then the foundation of the European project is destroyed.

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.

If the constitutional process is not brought to a successful conclusion before the European elections, then the whole process might run out of steam.

And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily.

Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day.

My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.

I am not an expert in this field but I do try to keep up to date with the Bundesliga. And I do follow World Cups and European Championships more closely.