Pat Buchanan Quotes

We are a European nation - must stay one.

Russia itself is a European country, and not just because our major political and economic centres are in Europe, but because Russian culture is primarily European culture.

I am a committed European; a united Europe is Romania's future.

There is not, in my view, a single European demos.

Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.

We Europeans will always have two fatherlands. One is Europe, and the other is our own country. It is unified in its diversity—this Europe.

We cannot turn our backs on Europe. We are part of Europe.

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.

I'd say that I'm a pro-European.

The EU project is to create a country called Europe.

I am a very committed European.

I want to tell stories about Europe - I feel profoundly European, I don't feel like an American.

In the light of these treaties we are Europeans only.

I am neither German or French but European.

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

We are not now a country of Africa but a country of Europe.

We have to reconcile Europeans with Europe.

I'm a patriot, but I'm also a European. I think the two go together.

Don't leave criticism of the E.U. to those who hate it.

But the European Union does not have a concept of national identity. It was set up to abolish that idea, not to abolish German national identity because that was trying to save itself.

I am not anti-European.

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.

I will defend Europe; it is our civilisation which is at stake... I will work to rebuild ties between Europe and its citizens.

Europe is my home, Europe is my continent. Europe is where we live. The European Union is a political bureaucratic organization that took away our identity and our national sovereignty. So, I would get rid of the European Union and be a nation-state again.

Like a lot of expatriate Scots, when you want to be called Scottish, it's useful. I see myself as being without nationality, as a European: my region is Scotland; my nationality is European - isn't that a very Alex Salmond thing to say?