George Soros Quotes

The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.

We will do whatever we could do to keep Greece inside the euro and inside Europe.

Is Europe going to be breaking? I don't think so. I think the euro will stay. I think at the end of the day Europeans will find the solutions in order to hold Europe together.

I would like to see Greece as a case study, an opportunity for Europe to strengthen its coordination of fiscal policy.

It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.

United States of Europe

The Euro was a terrible mistake, one that is very difficult to unmake.

If people do not believe in Europe and in the euro area, it must be dismantled.

If the euro fails, Europe fails.

Our problem as a country is that most of us do not want to join the euro, and we wish to stay aloof from the common frontiers of the free-travel Schengen area. This makes our relationship with the E.U. fraught with tension and trouble.

I see us very much at the heart of Europe. We are founding members of the single market; we are founding members of the euro.

Europe is one thing. The euro is something else.

But it is the best thing that we have for bringing the countries of Europe around the same table and for forging compromises so that people here can live in peace, freedom and prosperity. In a world which is growing closer together all the time, we can only survive and influence the rules if we join forces. We will miss the presence of the United Kingdom at this table.

The European Union that emerges from the Eurozone crisis is going to be a very different body. It will be transformed perhaps beyond recognition by the measures needed to save the Eurozone.

It [European Union] has kept the peace in Europe. Countries used to fight and now they talk. We should be attached to that.

For my generation, the monetary union has always been about forging peace.

Euro was created by Germany, for Germany.

I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier.

There is a proposal to divide the currency zone into a north and a south euro. There is also the idea of setting up a core monetary union in the middle of Europe. I disapprove of these debates. Instead, we should devote all of our efforts to supplementing the monetary union with a political union.

There are differences of opinion, especially when it comes to economic and financial policy. But when it comes to foreign and especially immigration policy, we are in agreement. No other countries in Europe are closer to each other in this regard than Italy and Germany.

The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.

I think that the Brexit negotiations have to be a big thing that determines the democratic fight-back and galvanizes democratic Europe again against this rising tide of nationalism.

Europe is a state with several provinces

We agree: Brussels can't regulate everything. I'm driven by something else: There are forces in Europe that want to generally give national policy priority over a common European approach. We have to prevent this.

Our task is nothing less than the creation of a new constitutional order for a new united Europe.