Quotes

"We have a growing relationship with the EU as an institution, which has an increasing voice in the world, and we want to see a strong British voice in that EU"

Philip Gordon - State Department official 10/01/2013

Category: Quote of the Day, European Union

You still hear some people speaking as though we could decide whether the Common market existed or not.

Hugh Gaitskell 08/05/1962

Category: European Union

Tags: Countries, European Union, Hugh Gaitskell

If you open that Pandora's box you never know what Trojan 'orses will jump out.

Ernest Bevin 1949

Mixing up his Greek legends to warn about the consequences of setting up the Council of Europe.

Category: European Union

Tags: Countries, Ernest Bevin, European Union

Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure.

Margaret Thatcher 03/2002

Category: European Union , European Constitution, European Federalism, European Integration, Eurosceptic

Tags: Countries, European Constitution, European Federalism, European Integration, European Union, Eurosceptic, Margaret Thatcher, Policy

It is not clear which impending catastrophe will be worse: the collapse of the euro or the transformation of the European Union into an economic equivalent of the former Soviet Union.

Wilhelm Hankel

Category: European Union , Euro (Single Currency)

Tags: Countries, Euro (Single Currency), European Union, Policy, Wilhelm Hankel

Labour has converted to Europe because Europe has converted to socialism.

Roy Hattersley 09/08/1992

Category: Labour Party, European Union , Socialism

Tags: Countries, European Union, Ideologies, Labour Party, Political Parties, Roy Hattersley, Socialism

Europe lacks leadership and a sense of mission and too many people don't feel a part of it...

Peter Mandelson 12/05/1998

Category: European Union

Tags: Countries, European Union, Peter Mandelson

Random Speech

Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.

H H Asquith

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