Europe Quotes - Page 11

• There have been major disagreements within the European Union.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Unions, Has Beens, Majors

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• We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Believe, Choices, Unions

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• Every country in Europe needs immigrants for its economic survival.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Country, Survival, Needs

  "Europe hands its soul to the right" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2009.

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• In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Soul, Haste, Losing

  "Europe hands its soul to the right" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2009.

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• Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.

  Charles Rangel

  Past, Hemisphere, Way

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• Europe will not accept genetically modified foods. It doesn't make any difference in the final analysis what Brussels does, what Washington does, or what the World Trade Organization does.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Organization, Differences, Gmos

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• In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

  Pat Robertson

  Tolerance, Bigs, Tolerate

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• Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.

  Henry Rollins

  Summer, July, August

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• I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become.

  Mitt Romney

  White, House, Want

  "The New Mitt: Tougher, Shinier, with a Hint of Nixon" by John Cassidy, www.newyorker.com. January 31, 2012.

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• This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe; we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.

  Mitt Romney

  Inspiration, Government, Cities

  "Romney Celebrates Double-Digit N.H. Victory". Interview with Ari Shapiro, kcur.org. January 11, 2012.

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• I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.

  Mickey Rourke

  Jobs, Tired, Fighting

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• In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

  Karl Rove

  Perfect, United States, Different

  Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. October 19, 2010.

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• We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Agency, Unions, Way

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• You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Thinking, Germany, France

  "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 20, 2005.

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• If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

  Salman Rushdie

  Country, Turkeys, Long

  "Salman Rushdie: Inside the Mind of Jihadists". Interview with Nathan Gardels, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.

  Salman Rushdie

  England, World, Opinion

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• Back in 2008, candidate Obama called a $10 trillion national debt 'unpatriotic' - serious talk from what looked to be a serious reformer. Yet by his own decisions, President Obama has added more debt than any other president before him, and more than all the troubled governments of Europe combined. One president, one term, $5 trillion in new debt.

  Paul Ryan

  Government, Decision, President

  Paul Ryan's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.npr.org. August 29, 2012.

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• So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place.

  Paul Ryan

  Retirement, Cutting, People

  "Exclusive: GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan on 'Hannity'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2012.

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• As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Religious, Leader, Political

  "Rediscovering Religious Values in the Market Economy" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2011.

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• God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Blind Spots, Intellectual, Collectives

  "Falling birth rate is killing Europe, says chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks" by Riazat Butt, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2009.

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• People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I think they are feeling that Israel is very isolated and doesn't always get what they see as fair treatment in the European media.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Thinking, Israel, Media

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• Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Talking, Dying, Climate

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• Europe today is the most secular region in the world. Europe is the only region in the world experiencing population decline. Wherever you turn today the more religious the community, the larger on average are their families.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Religious, Average, Community

  "Falling birth rate is killing Europe, says chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks" by Riazat Butt, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2009.

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• In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Two, Race, Discipline

  "Europe’s New Anti-Semitism" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2012.

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• The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical institutions of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, created specifically because of the danger of people being trapped by debt.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Biblical, America, Should Have

  "Rediscovering Religious Values in the Market Economy" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2011.

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