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• I love this country, but the union jack leaves me cold.

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  Country, Heart, Unions

  "In our search for Britishness, we should put out more flags - or none" by Timothy Garton Ash, January 18, 2006.

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• The Eurozone has clearly gone spectacularly wrong, pulling down all the continental economies.

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  Gone, Economy, Continental

  "Tracing The 43-Year History Of The U.K. In The European Union". "All Things Considered" with Ray Suarez, www.npr.org. June 25, 2016.

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• The main problem with American power is not that it is American... No, the main problem with American power is the power itself. It would be dangerous even for an archangel to wield so much power.

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  Would Be, Problem, Dangerous

  "Us and the hyperpower" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2002.

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• As one looks back, one sees that the fall of the Berlin Wall opened the door to three developments - the Eurozone, which was crafted around German unification, the free movement of peoples within Europe, particularly people from the new democracies of Eastern Europe, and, more broadly, it opened the door to globalization.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Wall, Fall, Doors

  "Tracing The 43-Year History Of The U.K. In The European Union". "All Things Considered" with Ray Suarez, www.npr.org. June 25, 2016.

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• The whole project of European Union is one in deep trouble.

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  Unions, Trouble, Projects

  "Tracing The 43-Year History Of The U.K. In The European Union". "All Things Considered" with Ray Suarez, www.npr.org. June 25, 2016.

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• People feel that European institutions are remote and bureaucratic, run by shady cosmopolitan elites. Britain is not absolutely exceptional because if you look at the opinion polls, those sentiments are now quite widespread also in continental Europe.

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  Running, Europe, People

  "Tracing The 43-Year History Of The U.K. In The European Union". "All Things Considered" with Ray Suarez, www.npr.org. June 25, 2016.

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• Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and heroes, torturers and post-modernists. Subversive of lies, half-truths, myths; of all those "easy speeches that comfort cruel men.

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  Lying, Hero, Men

  Timothy Garton Ash (2012). “Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name”, p.10, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

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  Transition, Violence, Compromise

  "A little democracy is a dangerous thing - so let's have more of it". www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2006.

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• Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans.

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  Religious, Attitude, Important

  Timothy Garton Ash (2012). “Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name”, p.124, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• America should do a reverse Columbus. The world no longer needs to discover America; but America urgently needs to discover the world's view of America.

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  Views, America, Needs

  "Americans need to discover how the world sees them" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2013.

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• Russia has lost an empire but not yet found a role. Russia has to decide what it wants to be. And as we know in Britain, that takes some time. It is quite tough to lose an empire and Russia lost its empire very rapidly and very admirably, that is to say peacefully, it didn't fight.

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  Fighting, Russia, Roles

  "Interview: British Historian Timothy Garton Ash On Europe's Future". Interview with Rikard Jozwiak, www.rferl.org. March 16, 2013.

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• It is not just that it is profoundly offensive to the leaders and people of a democratic Germany to paint Hitler on the wall (or on the remnants of the Wall). It is also consummately counterproductive. Such sauce does not make the meat of substantive criticism more interesting. It means that the whole dish is pushed away. It does not mean that Britain's voice is listened to more attentively in the councils of Europe. It means that it is listened to even less.

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  Wall, Mean, Europe

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• America is replicated at every level of British life, from the taxi driver to the prime minister.

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  America, Levels, Prime

  Timothy Garton Ash (2005). “Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West”, p.28, Vintage

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• I find Chinese debates about their political system domestically, but also about China's claims in the international system, to be among the most original and surprising and exciting of our time. The starting point is a system that none of us had anticipated, which I call Leninist capitalism, but also obviously because it is the most important emerging power. The question of China's relations with the United States in particular, and the rest of the world in general, is the question of war and peace in the 21st century.

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  War, Political, Chinese

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• I have a dreadful feeling in my bones that future historians may write of the May 2014 elections: "This was the wake-up call from which Europe failed to wake up."

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Writing, Europe, Feelings

  "Europe: the continent for every type of unhappy" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2014.

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• A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.

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  Democracy, Middle East, Administration

  "A little democracy is a dangerous thing - so let's have more of it". www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2006.

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