Nick Clegg Quotes

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

Europe existed before Britain joined it.

I see us very much at the heart of Europe. We are founding members of the single market; we are founding members of the euro.

I'm a big believer in Europe.

Europe has never existed. One must genuinely create Europe.

I like this idea of the re-foundation of the European Union, maybe it can be done, because Europe - I do not say is unique, but it has a force, a culture, a history that cannot be wasted, and we must do everything so that the European Union has the strength and also the inspiration to make it go forward.

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

You're thinking of Eurpoe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

I'm a great supporter of the European Union. I didn't support entry to the Euro, not because I'm against it in principle but because I didn't think it was economically right for Britain. But that doesn't make me any less pro-European.

I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.

In the light of these treaties we are Europeans only.

United States of Europe

We must build a kind of United States of Europe.

We are part of the community of Europe, and we must do our duty as such.

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.

If someone complains about Europe from Monday to Saturday, then nobody is going to believe him on Sunday when he says he is a convinced European.

You go to Paris, or you go to Portugal, you go to Poland, and you ask, 'Who are you people?' They'll tell you, we're Portuguese, we're Spanish, we're Polish. Who are the people that are really European? The people in Brussels, in the E.U. bureaucracy. Europe has not been able to move to the level of patriotic identification with the concept.

We want the United Kingdom to remain in the European Union.

Anything that keeps the U.K. close to the E.U. and best of all, in the E.U., would make me personally very happy.

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.

We have a commitment to making sure that the U.K. remains a member of the European Union.

The U.K. is leaving the E.U. but not Europe.

The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.

Nations are an historic reality in Europe. They all have different histories, and they joined the EU at very different times and under widely differing circumstances. I was mayor of Warsaw for three years and always in favor of Poland joining the EU. But I also experienced how we had to implement EU regulations that were completely inappropriate to our situation.

Just as I believe that Britain should want to remain in the EU so the EU should want us to stay.