Federica Mogherini Quotes

France is the bridge between northern Europe and southern Europe. I refuse any division. If Europe has been reunified, it's not for it to then fall into egotism or 'each for one's own'. Our duty is to set common rules around the principles of responsibility and solidarity.

Obviously, there is diversity, but Europe is a union of diversity.

We cannot allow events that might divide us in a small way to distract from the common values and the common interests that unite us in big ways.

Our challenge is to remind ourselves that we do have common interest, common grounds, and common dreams.

Our Union cannot safely stand on the cold calculation of interest alone.

One new reality is global interconnectivity and the fact that all challenges must be addressed on the basis of 'togetherness.' Thus the most crucial factor in accepting the new reality and confronting its opportunities and risks is our willingness to develop shared norms on all levels.

One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them.

What we need is a common goal for more Europe.

The most successful of the nations of the world are those who do not fall into the lure of secession but who, through thick and thin, forge unity in diversity.

Cooperation and solidarity are necessary requirements in order to bring about the solutions that will once again bring stability to the European integration and bring it back to the track of growth.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

There is no stability without solidarity and no solidarity without stability.

Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don't want dominance.

I mention the need of cooperation and confidence among the men who work, no matter what may be their relative ranks, because it is the vital factor underlying everything. Only as we are willing to work today, work as we never have worked before, will civilization survive.

Solidarity is the basis of my politics.

We support each other in the Coppola family. We love the idea of everyone getting his place in the sun.

Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.

All of us, the government, parliament, local authorities and the society must demonstrate determination and readiness to use knowledge and capabilities... toward full European integration.

Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

There are differences in the world community. But we have a common interest in a strong multilateral system.

No one can undermine national unity.

We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.