“Certainly, protecting oppressed people, stopping ethnic conflict and promoting responsible governance are worthy goals. But none is as important for American security and prosperity as keeping the peace in the Middle East, Europe and East Asia.” PeopleImportantGoalMiddleSecurityConflictEuropeResponsibleProsperityWorthyEastMiddle EastOppressedStoppingAsiaGovernancePromotingEthnic ConflictEast Asia Author:Michael Mandelbaum
“We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.” WorldShouldEuropeFoundationStriveInternationalProsperityZoneStable Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“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
“There should be a Transatlantic renaissance between the US and Europe based on shared prosperity, security, and values.” ShouldValuesSecurityEuropeProsperityRenaissance Author:John F. Kerry
“The United Kingdom and the European Union will remain indispensable partners of the United States even as they begin negotiating their ongoing relationship to ensure continued stability, security and prosperity for Europe, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the world.” WorldStatesUnitedUnited StatesSecurityEuropeUnionsProsperityPartnersKingdomsBritainStabilityIrelandIndispensableOngoingEuropean UnionGreat BritainNegotiatingUnited KingdomNorthern Ireland Author:Barack Obama
“But it is the best thing that we have for bringing the countries of Europe around the same table and for forging compromises so that people here can live in peace, freedom and prosperity. In a world which is growing closer together all the time, we can only survive and influence the rules if we join forces. We will miss the presence of the United Kingdom at this table.” PeopleIfsWorldCountryTogetherForceUnitedGrowingInfluenceMissingEuropeTablesProsperityKingdomsCompromiseBest ThingsUnited KingdomForging Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“We are willing to uphold principles that have resulted in unprecedented prosperity and security throughout Europe and around the world. With the threat of climate change only becoming more urgent, Angela [Merkel] and I focused on the need for American and E.U. leadership to advance global cooperation.” WorldNeedsPrinciplesSecurityWillingBecomingEuropeThreatClimateClimate ChangeProsperityFocusedAround The WorldCooperationUrgentUnprecedentedBecoming MoreAngela Author:Barack Obama
“I do believe that Chancellor Merkel and Germany are a lynchpin in protecting the basic tenets of a liberal, market-based democratic order that has created unprecedented prosperity and security for Europe, but also for the world.” WorldBelieveOrderSecurityEuropeDemocraticProsperityGermanyUnprecedented Author:Barack Obama
“The 20th Century was a bloodbath, and for all the frustrations and failures of the project to unify Europe, the last five decades have been periods of unprecedented peace, growth, and prosperity in Europe.” Has BeensLastsGrowthFiveCenturyPeriodsProjectsEuropeProsperityDecadesFrustration20th CenturyUnprecedented Author:Barack Obama
“Above all it is important to point out that we can only maintain our prosperity in Europe if we belong to the most innovative regions in the world.” IfsWorldImportantEuropeProsperityRegionsInnovative Author:Angela Merkel
“General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” IfsTearsWallEuropeUnionsProsperityPresidentialGatesPatrioticSovietSecretaryCold WarSoviet UnionEasternEastern EuropeBerlin WallGorbachev Author:Ronald Reagan
“Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded, that the evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come, I have used my best endeavors to keep our country uncommitted in the troubles which afflict Europe, and which assail us on every side.” BelieveLongWarCountryAgeUsedEvilPeaceSidesTroubleMankindEuropeProsperityPursuitOur CountryEnduranceEndeavorStableReckoningUncommittedEvils Of War Book:Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence
“There is no real peace in Europe, if the states are reconstituted on a basis of national sovereignty. (…) They must have larger markets. Their prosperity is impossible, unless the States of Europe form themselves in a European Federation.” IfsRealStatesFormImpossibleEuropeBasesProsperitySovereigntyFederationNational Sovereignty Author:Jean Monnet
“If Europe today accounts for just over 7 per cent of the world's population, produces around 25 per cent of global GDP and has to finance 50 per cent of global social spending, then it's obvious that it will have to work very hard to maintain its prosperity and way of life.” IfsWorldWayHardTodaySocialProduceEuropeAccountsPopulationProsperityObviousSpendingFinanceCentsGdp Author:Angela Merkel