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“I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US.”

Justice Europe Institutions Historical Profound Department Juniors Antitrust

Author:Mario Monti

“Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution.”

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Author:Peter Drucker

“The crisis in Europe has affected the US economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence and pressuring US financial markets and institutions.”

Acting Economy Europe Crisis Institutions Financial Consumers Affected Drag Weighing Financial Markets Consumer Confidence

Author:Ben Bernanke

“If we want to understand the distinctive constitution of Europe, we must go back to its religious foundations. For the moral beliefs which Christianity fostered still underpin civil society in Europe, the institutions that surround us.”

Ifs Want Stills Belief Religious Moral Christianity Europe Constitution Institutions Foundation Surround Distinctive Civil Society Moral Beliefs

Author:Larry Siedentop

“The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe is still threatened with a repetition of those calamities, which formerly oppressed the arms and institutions of Rome.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“We believe in a free Europe, not a standardised Europe. Diminish that variety within the member states, and you impoverish the whole Community. We insist that the institutions of the European Community are managed so that they increase the liberty of the individual throughout the continent. These institutions must not be permitted to dwindle into bureaucracy. Whenever they fail to enlarge freedom the institutions should be criticised and the balance restored.”

Should Believe States Whole Individual Community Liberty Failing Balance Members Europe Increase Institutions Variety Continents Bureaucracy Diminish

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“People feel that European institutions are remote and bureaucratic, run by shady cosmopolitan elites. Britain is not absolutely exceptional because if you look at the opinion polls, those sentiments are now quite widespread also in continental Europe.”

People Ifs Feels Looks Running Opinion Europe Institutions Britain Sentiments Elites Exceptional Polls Shady Continental Opinion Polls

Author:Timothy Garton Ash

“The problem is: When two governments or institutions in Europe hold differing opinions, it is immediately a crisis.”

Two Problem Government Opinion Europe Crisis Institutions

Author:Jean-Claude Juncker

“I'm always quite amazed that people in Europe become unnerved when two institutions or two people have different views.”

People Two Different Views Europe Institutions Amazed Different Views

Author:Jean-Claude Juncker

“U.S. has no feudal background, so institutions that remained in place in Europe did not remain in place here.”

Europe Institutions Backgrounds

Author:Noam Chomsky

“While the United States (US) can view the war as a success, Europe must see it as a failure for it and, in particular, for the institutions of the European Union (EU).”

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Author:Paul Virilio

“The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical institutions of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, created specifically because of the danger of people being trapped by debt.”

People Should Years America Danger Europe Should Have Institutions Debt Familiar Collectives Warning Trapped Biblical Signals Jubilee Sabbatical

Author:Jonathan Sacks

“We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal of co-operation. To represent and promote the values of European civilisation in the world. To advance our shared interests by using our collective power to open markets. And to build a strong economic base across the whole of Europe.”

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Author:David Cameron

“In the beginning the church was a fellowship of men and women centering on the living Christ. Then the church moved to Greece where it became a philosophy. Then it moved to Rome where it became an institution. Next, it moved to Europe, where it became a culture. And, finally, it moved to America where it became an enterprise.”

“I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.”

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Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.”