Matteo Salvini Quotes

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.

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

The E.U. is the world's fastest growing democratic body.

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

Regardless of our ambitions to become part of the E.U., we have to keep in mind that Turkey is also a very strong voice that can represent the needs of our region in wider terms in global platforms.

It always trips me out that America, the most powerful and magnificent nation in the history of the world, whose might was built by immigrants from all over the world, only speaks one language.

Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.

People feel that the EU is heading in a direction that they never signed up to. They resent the interference in our national life by what they see as unnecessary rules and regulation. And they wonder what the point of it all is. Put simply, many ask 'why can't we just have what we voted to join - a common market?'

Ukraine is a vital link for Europe: our energy transportation networks; our location between the European Union and Eurasia. We're the melting pot of Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity. The democracy we founded with the Orange Revolution has to be an example for other post-Soviet states.

In Western Europe there are now only small countries—those that know it and those that don't know it yet.

The United States, of course, is determined to diversify Europe to such an extent that it becomes a meaningless entity.

Latin America One Country Under One People

The American experience shows that the backlash to new ideas and cultures, now evident in many countries can be overcome.

At German unification, we were lucky to get so much help from West Germany. Now, we have the good fortune of being able to help each other in Europe.

My message to the people and rulers of Pakistan is, 'As neighbours, we want peace and friendship and cooperation with you so that together we can change the face of South Asia.'

I was raised in Montreal, which is very multicultural, very liberal. Then I moved to New York.

In the long run, Europe will certainly move toward unification. But it will be a process of push and pull, and there will be resistance.

We are in Europe, and we want a Europe that does few things and does them well, one that recognizes people's identities, languages, etc.

I've been to every single Asian country apart from Myanmar, on work, listening to human interest stories, giving me a broad outlook on all Asian cultures.

I like the idea that something happens to everybody who comes to L.A. - whether they are Mexican, Irish, black, or hillbillies. You come here, and you leave all your traditions behind. And since there's no traditions here, you just make one up.

Some will say it isn't the government's job to manage who people meet and interact with, but there is clearly a lot it can and should do. It should offer communities much more support to manage demographic and cultural change, including investment in public services and additional housing stock in our migration hotspots.

Brazil must resume and deepen Latin American integration.

I made my position clear to the people of Broxtowe: that I would continue to make the case for the single market.

Being part of the E.U. is central to how we in the U.K. create jobs, expand trade and protect our interests around the world.

America is so diverse.