Margaret Thatcher Quotes

For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe.

Can we live without Russian gas in Europe? The answer is no. Are there any reasons to live without it? I think - and I'm not defending the interests of Total in Russia - it is a no.

We in Europe have great capacities.

We don't want protectionism at the heart of the European Union.

If Germany wins, she will dominate France; the independence of Belgium, Holland, Denmark, and perhaps of Norway and Sweden, will be a mere shadow; their separate existence as nations will be fiction; all their harbours will be at Germany's disposal; she will dominate the whole of Western Europe, and this will make our position quite impossible. We could not exist as a first class State under such circumstances.

Europeans do not see that American power, which they resent, maintains their ability to be weak, to have shrunken defense budgets, minimal military capability beyond the borders of the EU, a relatively stagnant economy, and a general attitude of indulgent but righteous lassitude.

We are going to liberate Europe, but that’s because the Americans are with us to do it. For, understand this, every time we must choose between Europe and the open sea, we will always choose the open sea. Every time that I have to choose between you and Roosevelt, I will always choose Roosevelt.

The cabinets of Europe, far from being united, weakened each other with endless recrimination, which led people in Paris to believe that the measure of iniquity might be filled without fear of consequences.

This will change everything; Britain has been humiliated in the eyes of the other European powers; it will sap our influence and bleed our revenue white.

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

The EU is an English-speaking power. The single market was a British idea…. If you refuse please don’t expect us to help you wreck or paralyze the EU.

When E.U. governments are able to agree on political and economic policies, they will remain a superpower to influence the Americans, the Russians, Indians and Chinese over the coming decades. Britain on its own would resume the decline which continued through most of the 20th century.

We have a huge responsibility to make sure that Europe remains a prosperous and peaceful continent.

Italy is working to make sure the Brexit shock is an opportunity for a European reawakening.

And being in the EU has given Britain a stronger voice in the world. Britain leads in Europe, from trade to climate change, from good governance to debt relief for the poorest nations, and in turn Europe helps to lead the world.

In a changing global landscape, Europe will be more and more an indispensible power.

I have spent more time thinking about European issues than even I can imagine - so many years thinking about Britain and the way our influence around the world was amplified through the European Union.

Europeans are greater than they have been since any time since the end of the Cold War.

The European Union can now act like a major power, at least that is what the European Union tells us.

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.

The euro is a sickly premature infant, the result of an over-hasty monetary union.

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.

In my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across the world.