Barack Obama Quotes

The glue that binds the EU together is not a shared identity but shared projects.

To avoid the trap of Europe fragmenting on the economy, security, and identity, we have to return to the original promises of the European project: peace, prosperity and freedom. We should have a real, adult, democratic debate about the Europe we want.

It's not attractive at the moment to vouch for the European idea. I still do it, because I believe nothing would be better for our continent.

You can't build Europe against anyone.

We have to reconcile Europeans with Europe.

I'm a big believer in Europe.

Europe has never existed. One must genuinely create Europe.

I said, yet again, for Germany, Europe is not only indispensable, it is part and parcel of our identity. We've always said German unity, European unity and integration, that's two parts of one and the same coin. But we want, obviously, to boost our competitiveness.

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

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

Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union.

United, France and Germany can accomplish and prevent anything.... On their union depends, therefore, not only their own welfare but also the destiny of all of Europe.

In the light of these treaties we are Europeans only.

We Europeans will always have two fatherlands. One is Europe, and the other is our own country. It is unified in its diversity—this Europe.

We cannot turn our backs on Europe. We are part of Europe.

It is always said that Europe is a project of the elite. That's incorrect.

We are a European nation - must stay one.

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

I like this idea of the re-foundation of the European Union, maybe it can be done, because Europe - I do not say is unique, but it has a force, a culture, a history that cannot be wasted, and we must do everything so that the European Union has the strength and also the inspiration to make it go forward. That's what I think.

I like this idea of the re-foundation of the European Union, maybe it can be done, because Europe - I do not say is unique, but it has a force, a culture, a history that cannot be wasted, and we must do everything so that the European Union has the strength and also the inspiration to make it go forward.

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

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

A united Europe is our Continent's only chance to avoid falling off the world's radar. The heads of government of Germany, France and the United Kingdom also know that their voice is only heard internationally because they speak through the megaphone of the European Union.

You either believe in Europe at any price: in other words we have to be in Europe at any price because you can't survive without it, or you don't. If you don't it tends to suggest there is a price which you are not willing to pay.

Why am I such a Euro-enthusiast? Because I knew it was an anchor of democracy.