Jean-Claude Juncker Quotes

Nothing would be better today if Europe were divided or smaller. Today we have to say loud and clear that the crises, which have affected Europe cannot serve as a pretext for its disintegration. A mini-Europe would be the worst response to the maxi problems we have to face.

The struggles women face today are simultaneously very, very old and very new.

There are problems in the world today.

This 2016 election better be about the future, not the past. It better be about the issues our nation and the world is facing today, not simply the issues we once faced.

Implementing parts of European constitution and leaving out others - without knowing where we're going - isn't an option. That would be detrimental to the overall balance, which is why we must embark on another comprehensive discussion of the issue once again. I would like to see Europe retain the idea of a constitution in the end, and I plan to campaign on its behalf.

I am going to leave the future of Europe to the Europeans.

If you don't understand history, you will not be able to deal with today's issues.

Do today what you want for your tomorrows

Your life~the way it looks today is a result of your choices...What will you choose today for your tomorrows?

The way you see your future determines your thinking today. You're thinking today determines your performance today. Your performance in the today of your life determines your future.

Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past.

If I knew that the world ends tomorrow, I, even today, plant a tree

If we believe that the EU is only a fair-weather event we will be doomed. The EU cannot be an answer only to the tragedies of the past but also to the problems of the future. We must understand that the geopolitical holidays are over. It's time to go back to school where there will be only hard exams to take.

If you start planning too far ahead, the next thing you know you forget you're living today

The world needs a new global architecture, additional layers of governance, to deal with issues that neither nations nor traditional forms of intergovernmental organizations can cope with.

The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.

Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.

We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.

We'll jump off that bridge when we come to it.

I don't think about the past, I only think about the present because what I do today sets me up for the future.

Above all, do not give up your moral and political autonomy by accepting in somebody else's terms the illiberal practicality of the bureaucratic ethos or the liberal practicality of the moral scatter. Know that many personal troubles cannot be solved merely as troubles, but must be understood in terms of public issues and in terms of the problems of history making.

I think the UN's role - especially since it's not an extremely rich fund, and that's to put it mildly - is mainly to act as a leading thinker of the world in terms of how to think about the future.

We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.

There are ten times as many sex slaves transported around the globe today as agrarian slaves were transported in the 1790s.

No one ever thinks about what the hell is going to happen 25 years from now.