Andrew Mango Quotes

Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance.

Like so many of my generation and those younger, I have spent most of my life in the E.U., and my instincts were naturally for reform from within.

Those Who Slow Reforms Are Against Europe

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce and the diffusion of education, then upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

This age of globalization is marked by the adoption of universal principles governing such matters as democracy, human rights, trade and development.

The E.U. should want Turkey to be part of it.

We Estonians will do what is necessary to join the European Union.

We can look forward to the day when the free flow of trade, from the southern reaches of Tierra del Fuego to the northern outposts of the Arctic Circle, unites the people of the Western Hemisphere in a bond of mutually beneficial exchange, when all borders become what the U.S.-Canadian border so long has been: a meeting place, rather than a dividing line.

China has a history of thousands of years of feudalism and is still lacking in socialist democracy and socialist legality. We are now working earnestly to cultivate socialist democracy and socialist legality. Only in this way can we solve the problem.

From the very beginning, Europe has been not only a success story but also a story of success achieved by learning.

To create greater convergence, we need more intergration.

The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.

We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.

De facto, you have a multi-speed Europe. You look at the Schengen, you look at the euro zone, all this kind of cooperations, you have a multi-speed Europe.

France has always succeeded because it is part of the world.

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.

World leaders need to approach the problems in the Middle East and northern Africa with imaginative ideas such as those that created the E.U.

We have to change the politics of Goa.

India's engagement with the ASEAN region lies in the clarity of the principles that we share.

No one can be in any doubt that Britain is becoming more like Europe, though few in an increasingly economically illiterate media seem to realise it.

I think of the world as geographical regions, and it excites me to think about the opportunity that Europe can have if we consider it to be the 500-million-people region that it is.

Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean share a cultural heritage based on centuries of common history. And what is more, we share the same values and world view. We believe in a world order that is based on cooperation, on regionalism, on multilateralism.

Before, there was a culture that said Mumbai is separate, Telugu films should be separate. Now, everyone is working together. It's cool.

Creating a structure for mutual prosperity requires lowering regional and transnational barriers to facilitate the flow of goods and promote people-to-people interactions.