“(I)t is highly questionable whether when 'Europe speaks with one voice', as we are so often told it is doing, anyone is really listening. Europe's reputation as a serious player in international affairs is unenviable. It is a feeble giant who desperate attempts to be taken seriously are largely risible. It has a weak currency and a sluggish inflexible economy, still much reliant on hidden protectionism. It has a shrinking, ageing, population and, with the exception of Britain, rather unimpressive armed forces and, not excepting Britain, muddled diplomacy.” StillsSpeakForceVoiceEconomyTakenPlayerSeriousListeningEuropeWeakAffairInternationalPopulationReputationGiantsDesperateBritainExceptionCurrencyDiplomacyAgeingArmed ForcesShrinkingQuestionableSluggishProtectionismInternational Affairs Author:Margaret Thatcher
“We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia.” WorldWellsNationsMankindEuropeAffairPartnersLeagueAsiaParticipantsLeague Of Nations Author:Woodrow Wilson
“Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.” WorldTogetherChanceDemocracyEuropeAffairDoctrineWorld AffairsLiberal Democracy Author:Victor Ponta
“If the German nation wants to end a state of affairs that threatens its extermination in Europe, it must not fall into the error of the pre-War period and make enemies of God and the world; it must recognize the most dangerous enemy and strike at him with all its concentrated power. And if this victory is obtained through sacrifices elsewhere, the coming generations of our people will not condemn us.” PeopleIfsWorldWantWarEndsStatesFallNationsEnemyGenerationsSacrificeDangerousVictoryPeriodsEuropeErrorsAffairStrikesElsewhereExtermination Book:Mein Kampf Source: Mein Kampf
“Well, in Washington, this is a very hard time for Eleanor and Franklin. This is when Lucy Mercer first appears. And Lucy Mercer is Eleanor Roosevelt's own secretary. Very beautiful young woman, not unlike Eleanor Roosevelt: tall, blonde, thick haired. And FDR is having an affair with her, which Eleanor Roosevelt finds out when FDR returns from Europe in 1918 with the famous flu of 1918.” FirstsWellsHardBeautifulYoungReturnEuropeAffairHard TimesTallThickSecretaryYoung WomenFluBlondeFranklinVery BeautifulLucyEleanor Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“I felt implicated in American affairs.Outraged at the blatant lies about Iraqs involvement in al Qaeda, at the regimes arrogance and stupidity, Guantnamo Bay and all the rest of it. But the poems at the start of District and Circle Anahorish 1944, The Aerodromearent particularly aimed as criticism. On the contrary, there's a recognition of the big contribution to world order made in Europe during World War II.” WorldMadeWarBigsLyingOrderFeltEuropeCriticismAffairIraqStupidityContraryCirclesRecognitionWar Of The WorldsArroganceContributionAlsWorld War IiRegimesWorld War IInvolvementAl QaedaWorld OrderOutragedBlatant Lies Author:Seamus Heaney
“Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.” WorldStillsOpinionHappenedModernEuropeEnglandAffairCurrentsSophisticatedModern WorldCommentatorsForecastsAmerican WriterCurrent Affairs Author:Salman Rushdie
“I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.” StageEuropeAffairUniformsLove Affair Author:Madeleine Albright
“"Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe" "Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour to be the first?" Asked Holmes, with some asperity. "To the man of precised, scientific mind the work of Monsieur Bertillon must always appeal strongly." "Then had you not better consult him?" "I said, sir, to the precisely scientific mind. But as a practical man of affairs it is acknowledged that you stand alone. I trust, sir, that I have not inadvertently--" "Just a little," said Holmes.” MenMindFirstsMayLittlesSaidHighestEuropeAffairPracticalsAppealsExpertsHonourHolmesStand Alone Author:Arthur Conan Doyle
“If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.” IfsWarHouseLostColdEuropeWesternAffairRussiaCold WarCommitteesWestern EuropeForeign Affairs Author:Walter Lippmann