David Cameron Quotes

We have more and more rules coming out of Europe telling us what to do, and I think people are getting a bit fed up with it. This was supposed to be a common market. I don't remember them ever saying we would be governed by Brussels and become a satellite of Europe.

After choosing monetary union, further political union and workable governance in Europe was always going to be necessary.

By all means, let's have free trade and no trade barriers and a common market. But where did it all suddenly become about our own economic and political destiny being surrendered to Brussels with agendas that arguably have very little to do with the interests of the British people and British voters?

I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.

Limitless enlargement of Europe means the death of political Europe.

European union is our destiny.

We don't want a European super state.

Everyone understands the European Union is a failure. It has not kept any of its promises - in particular about prosperity, security - and, worst of all, has put us under a guardianship.

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.

Whatever the details of union may be, there's no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe.

Any people has a right to self-determination, and now in Europe the process of diluting national sovereignty in the framework of a united Europe is more accepted.

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.

My vision is that our country should be integrated in the EU, to transfer a part of our independence there. It is also our duty to do it, if we want to establish trade and a sound economy. This is the vision that I am working on and I will continue to work in the future.

Europe started out with six countries; three small countries and three large countries.

The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.

'Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the creation and imposition of a European superstate, one centralised in Brussels.

While the Marshall Plan was important for Europe's recovery, Europe's prosperity was really built on economic integration and policy coherence.

I would wish for more British involvement in Europe, not less.

Brussels has become inefficient and very bureaucratic, which makes it slow to do things. The concept of the United States of Europe will never work.

To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries.

We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice.

People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.

The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression.

Peace in Europe can only come through union in one economic system. The United States of Europe are overdue.

The EU Constitution sets a path towards the elimination of nation states and the emergence of a European state in the strictest sense of the word. I'm definitely opposed to it.