“Markets are saying pretty much what I'm saying too: that Greece is doing what it can, but that Greece is not going to be able to carry the weight of all of Europe and the other problems that Europe has.” ProblemAbleEuropeWeightGreece Author:George Papandreou
“In a multipolar world, there must be more powers capable of taking responsibility, the US and Europe must be able to unite to achieve peace in the Middle East.” WorldAbleResponsibilityMiddleAchieveCapableEuropeEastMiddle EastTaking Responsibility Author:Dominique de Villepin
“The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought... Europe and large parts of Asia and Africa became one vast battlefield on which after years of struggle not armies but nations broke and ran. When all was over, Torture and Cannibalism were the only two expedients that the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to deny themselves: and they were of doubtful utility.” YearsTwoWarStatesAbleChristianNationsStruggleModernEuropeDestructionArmyAncientDenyBrokeRanTortureAgencyCivilizedFearfulImmenseAsiaUtilityBattlefieldsDoubtfulGreat WarCannibalismRuthlessnessModern War Author:Winston Churchill
“Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone, North America was able within less than a century to equal, and even surpass, the civilization of Europe.” InspirationAbleAmericaSpiritLibertyCenturyCivilizationEqualEuropeProductivityMarvelousMagicianNorth America Author:Mikhail Bakunin
“I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is history. I think, for example, the reason that I was perhaps able to see sooner than some others that the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe was decaying--if not disintegrating--was that I came to it through history and through Germany, rather than through Sovietology and through Moscow. And therefore the starting point was that no empire in history has lasted forever, and this one won't either.” IfsThinkingReasonAbleForeverExampleTrainingEuropeRelationStartingInternationalConvictionGermanyEmpiresHistorianSovietEasternInternational RelationsStarting PointMoscowEastern Europe Author:Timothy Garton Ash
“There will be no peace in Europe if the States rebuild themselves on the basis of national sovereignty, with its implications of prestige politics and economic protection... The countries of Europe are not strong enough individually to be able to guarantee prosperity and social development for their peoples. The States of Europe must therefore form a federation or a European entity that would make them into a common economic unit.” IfsCountryStatesEnoughAbleFormStrongSocialCommonEconomicDevelopmentEuropeBasesProsperityProtectionGuaranteesEntityUnitsSovereigntyStrong EnoughImplicationsPrestigeSocial DevelopmentFederationNot StrongNational SovereigntyNot Strong Enough Author:Jean Monnet
“I feel like we [americans] are a unique nation in this world, in that we are able to implement great change in our society over a relatively short period of time. What takes centuries in Europe, we accomplish in a generation.” WorldFeelsAbleNationsGenerationsCenturyThis WorldPeriodsUniqueEuropeAccomplishOur SocietyGreat Change Author:Khaled Hosseini
“Of course, in the reality of history, the Machiavellian view which glorifies the principle of violence has been able to dominate.Not the compromising conciliatory politics of humaneness, not the Erasmian, but rather the politics of vested power which firmly exploits every opportunity, politics in the sense of the "Principe," has determined the development of European history ever since.” Has BeensRealityAbleCoursesOpportunityViewsPrinciplesHistoryViolenceDevelopmentEuropeDeterminedCompromiseExploitsGlorifyEuropean History Author:Stefan Zweig
“Unless we are able to commit to a permanent growing settlement [on Mars], then I don't think just going there with humans and coming back is worth doing. The expense of planning to come back is like the people who left Europe to come to America and then to turn around and go back to Europe, it really doesn't make any sense at all.” PeopleThinkingHumansAbleAmericaTurnsLeftGrowingEuropePlanningCommitPermanentExpensesMarsComing BackSettlement Author:Buzz Aldrin
“There is no nation on the continent of Europe that is less able to do harm to England, and there isno nation on the continent of Europe to whom we are less able to do harm, than Russia.We are so separate that it seems impossible that the two nations, by the use of reason or common sense at all, could possibly be brought into conflict with each other.” TwoReasonUseSeemsAbleNationsCommonImpossibleConflictEuropeEnglandHarmRussiaCommon SenseContinentsTwo Nations Author:John Bright
“I love being in America. I used to love traveling and I am glad that I was able to go around the world. I still love to go to Europe, but I always want to come home.” WorldWantStillsHomeAbleAmericaUsedLove IsEuropeGladAround The WorldComing HomeUsed To Love Author:Eartha Kitt
“I have always considered it to be a minor miracle that after the war, people in Europe's border regions were able to forget everything and, in accordance with the slogan "Never Again War," develop a program that still works today.” PeopleStillsWarTodayAbleForgetEuropeProgramMiracleBordersRegionsMinorsSlogansForget Everything Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“Just come to Brussels after a Council meeting. Do you know what happens? Every head of government holds his or her own press conference. They all say the same thing, in 24 languages: I was able to push through my agenda. And if the result is anything other than what they desired, the message is: Brussels is to blame. It has been this way for over 20 years. These messages stick with people, and that's deadly for Europe.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayYearsHas BeensGovernmentHappensAbleLanguageResultsMessagesEuropeBlamePressesSticksMeetingsAgendasDo You KnowConferencesCouncilPress ConferencesBrussels Author:Martin Schulz
“Of course philosophy is not able to impose its own choices on politics, let alone on the economy. Nonetheless, it can help to identify the role of Europe in the global world and the principles that should inform its conduct.” WorldShouldPhilosophyHelpingAbleChoicesCoursesPrinciplesRolesEconomyEurope Author:Roberto Esposito
“I think we need to do much more with our tech companies to prevent ISIS and their operatives from being able to use the Internet to radicalize, even direct people in America and Europe and elsewhere.” PeopleThinkingNeedsUseAbleAmericaCompanyInternetEuropeDirectElsewhereIsis Author:Hillary Clinton
“Seventy-eight percent of millennials are worried about not having enough good paying job opportunity to pay off their student loans. Seventy-four percent can't pay the health care if they get sick. Seventy-nine percent don't have enough money to live when they retire. So, already, we're having a whole generation that's coming on, not only here but also in Europe, that isn't able to get good-paying jobs.” IfsEnoughWholeCareAbleJobsOpportunityPayFourGenerationsStudentsPercentEuropeSickEightNineHealth CareWorriedRetiringSeventiesLoanMillennialsStudent LoanJob Opportunities Author:Michael Hudson
“The United States has kept the peace through our alliances. Donald Trump wants to tear up our alliances. I think it makes the world safer and, frankly, it makes the United States safer. I would work with our allies in Asia, in Europe, in the Middle East, and elsewhere. That's the only way we're going to be able to keep the peace.” ThinkingWorldWayWantStatesAbleUnitedUnited StatesMiddleTearsTrumpEuropeEastAlliesMiddle EastElsewhereAsiaAlliances Author:Hillary Clinton
“Europe is a very different place from my native country of Colombia and my children are growing up in a very urban setting which is nothing like when I was growing up and would be able to play barefoot in the street. But we have a very good life.” ChildrenDifferentCountryPlayWould BeAbleGrowing UpGrowingStreetsEuropeVery GoodSettingSettingsMy ChildrenNativeGood LifeUrbanDifferent PlaceColombiaBarefootNative CountryVery Good Life Author:Shakira
“You see crime and you see all [ sharia] things happening, unfortunately all over Europe, because of (a) the mass immigration, but (b) also because of we politicians are not able to deal with it.” AbleDealsCrimePoliticianMassHappeningsEuropeThings HappenImmigrationSharia Author:Geert Wilders
“There is no way the Americans are going to be able to carry out a full scale war against Iraq and at the same time maintain the same kind of pressure on the Al Qaeda network in countries as diverse as Indonesia, Philippines, and Pakistan, as well as in Europe.” WayWellsKindWarCountryAbleEuropePressureIraqScalesAlsDiversePakistanIndonesiaAl QaedaPhilippines Author:Ahmed Rashid
“Greece, alone, is in a very vulnerable position. If the Greeks had had support from progressive left and popular forces elsewhere in Europe they might have been able to resist the demands of the Troika, but they had almost no support. Not even from Portugal, Spain, or other left forces. They were left alone.” IfsHas BeensMightAbleLeftForceSupportPositionDemandEuropeVulnerableGreekProgressiveElsewhereSpainMight Have BeenGreeceLeft AlonePortugal Author:Noam Chomsky
“I was able to go over [Saxophone Competition] and work a little more in Europe. I'm thankful that those of kinds of things. Simultaneously, some nice things did come in. I got a nice festival that came in, in Virginia through that. There was a club that opened in DC in the famous Willard Hotel near the White House. And the club was called The Nest. I played there a few nights. Some musicians in Philly and D.C. kind of brought me down and got me on a couple things. So things opened up a little bit.” KindLittlesAbleNightHouseBitsWhiteNiceCoupleLittle BitMusicianEuropeDown AndCompetitionClubsHotelWhite HouseFestivalsNestsVirginiaNice ThingsSaxophoneSome NiceCouple Things Author:Jon Gordon
“I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s learning and Baldwin’s love and Langston’s humor eventually succumbed to its corrosive force, each man finally forced to doubt art’s redemptive power, each man finally forced to withdraw, one to Africa, one to Europe, one deeper into the bowels of Harlem, but all of them in the same weary flight, all of them exhausted, bitter men, the devil at their heels.” MenArtSelfAbleForceDoubtFindingsDevilEuropeDeeperIntellectFlightBitterIronyContemptHeelsWearyExhaustedAnguishHarlemBowelsDubois Book:Dreams From My Father Source: Dreams From My Father
“I've been seeing the change. It's been steady. It's been more controlled than people think. And my own belief is that China knows it also needs to be part of the world, and that it needs to be able to have trade with Europe and the United States in order to house and feed a billion people. That's really kind of single-mindedly what they see their role as being.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldNeedsBelieveKindStatesAbleOrderHouseBeliefChangeMy OwnUnitedBusinessRolesUnited StatesSeeingSurvivalEuropeTradeChinaBillionsControlledSteadyBelive Author:Jeffrey R. Immelt
“By a steady adherence to the Union we may hope, erelong, to become the arbiter of Europe in America, and to be able to incline the balance of European competitions in this part of the world as our interest may dictate.” WorldMayAbleAmericaInterestPolicyBalanceEuropeCompetitionUnionsSteadyForeign PolicyInclineAdherenceArbiter Book:The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers Source: The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers
“It is not certain that with this aid alone [possession of arms], they would not be able to shake off their yokes. But were the people to posses the additional advantages of local governments chosen by themselves, who could collect the national will, and direct the national force; and of officers appointed out of the militia, by these governments and attached both to them and to the militia, it may be affirmed with the greatest assurance, that the throne of every tyranny in Europe would be speedily overturned, in spite of the legions which surround it.” PeopleMayGovernmentWould BeAbleCertainForceArmsEuropeAdvantageDirectPossessionAidsTyrannyLocalsChosenShakesSpiteSurroundOfficersAmendmentsThronesAssuranceSecond AmendmentYokeMilitiaLegionFederalist2 AmendmentLocal GovernmentPosse Author:James Madison
“Europe and America must act together in the face of evil. It's high time for Americans and Europeans to restore that unity and be able to take actions collectively together.” AbleActionTogetherAmericaFacesEvilEuropeUnityEurope And America Author:Wesley Clark