Betty Boothroyd Quotes

We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.

The world is waiting for us, the world wants to engage with us, the world wants to be friendly with us, the world wants to be our partner in prosperity, and the world admires India in many ways.

Solidarity and competitiveness are the two sides of a European coin.

The majority of decisions in Europe are done by unanimity. That's why it is important to be to have good relations with all parts.

China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it's not an 'us versus them,' it's an 'us and them' type scenario.

For all its shortcomings, European co-operation and integration has created an understanding of shared destiny. We no longer point guns at each other; we fight it out at a conference table. And we will continue to do so when the U.K. is no longer a member state but, I hope, still a friend.

This can sound as something naive. But if we are together in this union, it's because we choose to be one in many things. That's what makes the European Union experience so challenging and also a model. Why did we do this choice? Because we see that we share a common interest and common values.

At the European table, we are systematically the most determined to advance a strategy of increased cooperation.

Britain can get far better results if it engages with Europe than standing on the sidelines and saying that Europe should change.

I think that what started out as a European Union originally was probably a really wonderful and world-changing idea, the idea of a kind of cooperation and interdependence between countries. But the idea that individualization would work on common ground, not on conflict, not against each other, but to find how each benefitted from the other I thought was an incredibly hopeful and positive possibility.

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

We really believe our national interests are identical with European interests.

France has a very important relationship with Germany. But that does not mean that we agree about everything or that two of our universities or companies are not going to compete.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don't want dominance.

We support each other in the Coppola family. We love the idea of everyone getting his place in the sun.

Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.

In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together.

All of us, the government, parliament, local authorities and the society must demonstrate determination and readiness to use knowledge and capabilities... toward full European integration.

The more the UK feels distanced from European construction the less others are able to benefit from the full influence of the many good things that the UK can help us all to achieve, and therefore there are many areas where I think it would be beneficial to have the UK fully at the table.

A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.

Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.

In my view, nations together are stronger than when they are isolated. And because they are stronger, their people are more free, not less.

All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.