Hugh MacDiarmid Quotes

China's reform and opening-up programme and Europe's integration process have both contributed significantly to global peace, development, and prosperity. China firmly supports the integration of Europe and regards the E.U. as a strategic partner that deserves our confidence.

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

It is in my heart that I believe most strongly that our future is within a reformed E.U. - not least because we now live in a global marketplace.

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

America is the first world country.

Overall, for 99 years, the planet grew more peaceful and prosperous under Britain’s eye.

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

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.

In the modern world, those who are weak will get unambiguous advice from foreign visitors which way to go and what policy course to pursue.

It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU.

In an era of billion-person countries and trillion-pound economies, we need to find ways to amplify our voice. We are most likely to be heard when the Chinese negotiate with a £10 trillion E.U., not a £1.5 trillion Britain.

I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all humanity.

The decisive factor for the future of Europe - and before all things, for the 'restoration' of Europe - will be whether political thought and national feelings are influenced by the reality of internationalism.

I am not a British isolationist. I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too.

When the Egyptians decide something, probably it is not appropriate for the U.S. When the Americans decide something, this, of course, is not appropriate for Egypt.

For some time, Scotland's greatest exports to England have included whisky and Scottish MPs. Or, in the case of Charles Kennedy, both. All these links, politically, economically, culturally, are part of my Union. Would Glasgow's brilliant Commonwealth Games or the Edinburgh Festival be any better for our being independent? I doubt it.

Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial relations have broken down barriers of race and religion, and the family of nations is a recognized fact.

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the E.U. and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true.

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

We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.

Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events.

Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of society.

Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?

In this century, the 21st century, the U.S. recognizes our prosperity and our security depends even more on the Asia-Pacific region.