Jean-Claude Juncker Quotes

[on Brexit] It's time for change. I just hope the right people give the right leadership.

We have taken a situation in the U.K. because of concerns, for example, over immigration and other things, so Britain now is on a path out of Europe.

My preoccupation has been from the very beginning that I believe that the "Brexit" referendum result is the most disastrous peacetime result that we've seen in Britain.

I would like a UK fully engaged in Europe, but I can't decide in place of the British. I see that for the moment they want to be more in retreat.

In the light of these treaties we are Europeans only.

I personally hope and wish that Britain will stay part and parcel of the European Union.

I think us leaving would have an enormous and bad effect on the rest of the EU. The EU would respond by deepening integration and becoming more of a 'political project'. It would not only be damaging ourselves but also the kind of Europe we want.

Leaving the E.U. is an opportunity for our country.

We've been slagging off the E.U. for decades, and now we've gone and voted to leave. And if anyone thinks they are going to offer us some great trade deal as we walk away, they are living in la la land.

The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.

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

I actually think this whole Brexit thing in the U.K. was a welcome example of being straightforward. With the candidates pulling out quickly, there's no stringing the people along.

I think Brexit will go down that it will end up being a fantastic thing for the United Kingdom. I think in the end, it will be a tremendous asset, not a tremendous liability.

Britain, Europe's second largest economy, a member of the G-7 and the UN Security Council, wants to leave the EU. That weakens us and it weakens Britain.

I hate this argument that says little Britain or something outside, or Britain is part of a wider Europe. We can both be within our trading relationships within Europe but we can also be a fantastic global trader.

We need less theoretical debate and more practical application and acknowledgment of what Europe can and does do so that it is brought home to people in a relevant way.

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.

The choice is not normally between the north and south. It might be between Britain and Europe.

To be influential in tomorrow's world, to defend our values and our development model, France needs Europe and Europe needs France.

I declare myself an Austrian and a European. A united Europe will be a peaceful Europe.

So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe.

We should not make the mistake of equating the E.U. with Europe. Outside the E.U., we wouldn't cease to be Europeans. But, an exit would definitely risk losing those opportunities for our children while growing no similar opportunities elsewhere.

I would wish for more British involvement in Europe, not less.

I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.

I am a very committed European.