European Countries Quotes - Page 3

• Terrorist threats are not happening just in this country, but in every European country and every country across the globe. As a result of that, we do sometimes have to take measures we would rather not take in order to give us the security we need.

  Tony Blair

  Country, Order, Giving

  "Britain rules out Heathrow closure". www.cnn.com. February 12, 2003.

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• If you put all the European countries together, we are the biggest economy in the world.

  George Papandreou

  Country, Together, World

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• America is very decentralized in how it supports the humanities, unlike European countries where virtually everything stems from the central government.

  Jim Leach

  Country, America, Government

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• Franchement, quand je survole certains pays européens (les éoliennes) ne donne pas envie. (Frankly, when I fly over some European countries, their turbines don't fill me with envy.)

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Country, Wind, Envy

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• It’s notable that the countries that most pride themselves on their commitment to equality, human rights, and democracy (like the United States and the western European countries) are precisely those that, in the late twentieth century, invented a new status (‘illegal’) in order to deprive some of their residents of access to equality, human rights, and democracy.I am honored to lend my name to PICUM’s campaign to end the use of the term ‘illegal’ and to challenge the whole concept of illegality as a status.

  Aviva Chomsky

  Country, Commitment, Pride

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• Finland, and all the other European countries, we are too dependent on imported energy. We should be using a broader variety of energy resources.

  Tarja Halonen

  Country, Energy, Resources

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• The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Country, Stupid, America

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• It is the wall of separation between church and state . . . that is largely responsible for religion thriving in this country, as compared to those European countries in which church and state have been united, resulting in opposition to the church by those who disapprove of the government.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Country, Wall, Government

  Alan Dershowitz (2007). “Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence”, p.49, John Wiley & Sons

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

  Albert Gallatin

  Country, Belief, Fund

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• Some European countries insist on saying that during World War II, Hitler burned millions of Jews and put them in concentration camps. Any historian, commentator or scientist who doubts that is taken to prison or gets condemned. Although we don't accept this claim, if we suppose it is true... If the Europeans are honest they should give some of their provinces in Europe - like in Germany, Austria or other countries - to the Zionists and the Zionists can establish their state in Europe. You offer part of Europe and we will support it.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Country, War, Taken

  "Iran Prez: Move Israel To Europe". www.cbsnews.com. December 8, 2005.

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• Publications by the World Health Organization show that diphtheria is steadily declining in most European countries, including those in which there has been no immunization. The decline began long before vaccination was developed. There is certainly no guarantee that vaccination will protect a child against the disease; in fact, over 30,000 cases of diphtheria have been recorded in the United Kingdom in fully immunized children.

  Leon Chaitow

  Country, Children, Guarantees That

  Leon Chaitow (2011). “Vaccination And Immunisation: Dangers, Delusions and Alternatives (What Every Parent Should Know)”, p.71, Random House

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• If the Holocaust didn't take place, why then did this regime of occupation come about? Why do the European countries commit themselves to defending this regime? Permit me to make one more point. We are of the opinion that, if an historical occurrence conforms to the truth, this truth will be revealed all the more clearly if there is more research into it and more discussion about it.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Country, Holocaust, Historical

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A large country with such outstanding economic performance as Germany cannot forget that it owes some of its success to demand from other European countries.

  Francois Hollande

  Country, Germany, Demand

  "French Presidential Candidate Hollande 'They'll Have to Listen to Me'". Interview with Mathieu von Rohr and Romain Leick, www.spiegel.de. March 12, 2012.

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• Comparatively there is a much more awareness about energy resources in other countries and especially in the US and European countries. Also people there are much more serious about what they do. Here, people are more concerned about getting a 'degree' rather than this.

  Ramon Magsaysay

  Country, People, Serious

  Source: themanipaljournal.com

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• It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants
  of many European countries came, in general unpleasantly, to the
  realization that their fate could be influenced directly by intricate and
  abstruse books of philosophy.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Country, Philosophy, Book

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• The quota idea is a good one, but there are two problems with it. The first is clear: A quota system would also require all European countries to be prepared to take refugees. And secondly: What happens when the quota has been filled? Would we then simply tell those who are threatened, sorry but we have to send you back?

  Martin Schulz

  Country, Sorry, Ideas

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There's not a European country the Jews haven't been thrown out of. When it happens that many times, it's not just persecution. THERE'S NO SMOKE WITHOUT FIRE.

  Mark Collett

  Country, Fire, Persecution

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• America does not need to be worried with bailing out a European country that has made irresponsible expenditures, and then all of a sudden, throws their hands up and say, Oh, please come save us. That is not our responsibility in the United States of America.

  Rick Perry

  Country, Responsibility, Hands

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The European countries are really hoping to do well in the Olympics. If they win gold medals, they can use them as cash.

  David Letterman

  Funny, Country, Winning

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• The people in our country and in America and in all West European countries, they have to gorge and guzzle so that they don't even start to think about the fact that we have something to do with Vietnam or what it might be about, OK?

  Gudrun Ensslin

  Country, Thinking, America

  "Audiovisions: Cinema and Television as Entr'actes in History". Book by Siegfried Zielinski, 1999.

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• RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were made by returned missionaries to introduce it into several European countries . .

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, Virtue, Introducing

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.108, Courier Corporation

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• We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.

  Hillary Clinton

  Positive, Country, Jobs

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• A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari

  Country, Tree, Different

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• Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.

  H. A. L. Fisher

  Race, Europe, Doe

  A History of Europe ch. 1 (1935)

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

  Ted Demme

  Film, Kurosawa

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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