“Law enforcement does counter political extremism here in the United States in the exact same way that they do political extremists who are infiltrated into the United States, who may come from a religious motivation, as we saw overseas in Europe. But the same methodologies have to be used.” WayMayDoeStatesLawPoliticalUsedMotivationReligiousUnitedUnited StatesSawsEuropeLaw EnforcementEnforcementExtremismExtremistMethodologyPolitical Extremism Author:Malcolm Wrightson Nance
“Europe is not becoming more unified - well, yes, on paper - but not as long as the criteria for so many things (import regulations, border control, visa politics...etc.) are still made in an unjust, unreasonable way.” WayWellsLongMadeStillsBecomingPaperEuropeBordersEtcRegulationUnjustCriteriaBecoming MoreUnreasonableUnifiedImportsVisaBorder Control Author:Sasa Stanisic
“I think Africa will have a crisper impact on Europe, as it has traditionally, and then that will filter into the American cultural psyche, in the way that India has.” ThinkingWayEuropeIndiaImpactFilters Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor
“What Secretary Ash Carter is looking at is the constant pressure that Russia's putting on our European allies. The way that Russia is trying to move the boundaries of the post-World War II Europe. The way that he is trying to set European countries against one another, seizing territory, holding it in Crimea. Beginning to explore whether they could make some inroads in the Baltics.” WorldWayTryingWarCountryMovingEuropePressureConstantRussiaBoundariesPostsWar Of The WorldsTerritoryAlliesWorld War IiWorld War IAshesSecretaryCarterEuropean CountriesSeizingCrimea Author:Hillary Clinton
“Actually, when I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boats when I was 16 and 18. One of them crossed through the Mississippi and Baton Rouge and Mobile, Alabama, and another went all the way to Europe. On the last trip, I stayed in Europe for one year with $1,000, working everywhere I could, doing everything. Those years shaped me a lot and taught me the value of exploring different things.” ThinkingWayFeelsYearsMadeTwoDifferentLastsValuesGrowing UpGrowingTaughtEuropeBoatDifferent ThingsAffectedExploringMobileMississippiAlabamaCargoRougeBatonBaton Rouge Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“New York feels like a sublet of Europe. And Europe is a sublet of New York. Put it that way. It's so accessible. When I was in LA, I felt so far away from my home. Home, for the moment, is here until it's not. I like to move around with my work. I feel it's a great way to learn about life, about new cultures, and to learn. We'll see where the wind takes me.” WayFeelsMomentsHomeMovingCultureFeltNew YorkWindEuropeTake MeFar AwayHome HomeNew Cultures Author:Sean Mahon
“I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect. The anything-goes, anarchic qualities of jazz and Surrealism seemed to offer a way to cross some of the forbidden frontiers of Eastern Europe.” WayArtistQualityEffectsOffersEuropeCrossesJazzTheatreSectionsEasternForbiddenAlienationFrontiersTotalitarianismSurrealismEastern EuropeCzechAnything GoesBrecht Author:Nicholas Royle
“So the tradition from Europe is that you're supposed to emphasize the mind over the body, so you sing from a very kind of staid perspective. Again, there are charismatic white congregations all over, and they don't sing that way. But, you know, on the average.” KnowsWayMindKindBodyWhitePerspectiveEuropeTraditionAverageCongregationCharismatic Author:Michael Emerson
“Look, the United States doesn't have political parties. In other countries, take say Europe, you can be an active member of the political party. Here, the only thing in a political party is gearing to elections, not the other things you do. So it's basically, a way of making people passive, submissive objects.” PeopleWayLooksCountryStatesPoliticalUnitedPartyUnited StatesObjectsMembersEuropeElectionActiveOther CountriesPassivePolitical PartiesSubmissive Author:Noam Chomsky
“An EU without Britain, without 1 of Europe's strongest powers, a country which in many ways invented the single market, and which brings real heft to Europe's influence on the world stage which plays by the rules and which is a force for liberal economic reform would be a very different kind of European Union.” WorldWayKindDifferentRealCountryPlayWould BeForceInfluenceEconomicStageEuropeUnionsReformBritainStrongestDifferent KindsEuropean UnionEconomic Reforms Author:David Cameron
“That's the luck we have with making films in Europe. It's still, in some ways, a virgin territory for a lot of stories. It's funny to see people in 10-gallon hats somewhere in France or Switzerland. You think, "Wow, is this real?" You do it in Wyoming and it's redundant.” PeopleThinkingWayStillsRealStoriesFilmEuropeLuckFranceHatsTerritoryWowVirginsSwitzerlandReal YouGallonsRedundantWyoming Author:Thomas Bidegain
“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
“If educators were really understanding of that, they'd say, "You know what? Forget about bilingual, we're going to do multilingual education." So children are ready for the new millennium. We're way behind compared to countries in Europe. If we were multilingual, imagine how much you would learn about your own culture, about the sensibilities of what's important in your own culture.” IfsKnowsWayChildrenImportantCountryCultureUnderstandingForgetBehindsImagineReadyEuropeSensibilityEducatorWhat's ImportantMillennium Author:Sandra Cisneros
“Omelets are about technique. Now, different people make it different ways, but, if you're a chef in Europe, an omelet has to be cooked on the outside, with just a simmer of color, and the inside has to be soft. It should be cooked like a steak - medium rare.” PeopleIfsWayShouldDifferentColorEuropeTechniqueMediumsDifferent WaysChefDifferent PeoplesSteakOmelets Author:Wolfgang Puck
“The way the Europeans work, most girls get paid by their federation; their country pays them. Essentially the federations say go represent our country, race on whatever trade team you want, and here's your money. So you don't really make you're money on trade teams. Europeans make money through their country's federation. There's not a lot of money for women in cycling in Europe either.” WayWantCountryGirlPayRaceTeamEuropePaidTradeOur CountryMaking MoneyLots Of MoneyCyclingFederation Author:Kristin Armstrong
“Since it took up office, the Commission which I lead has pursued a clear policy: we need less interference from Brussels when it comes to the things that Member States can deal with better on their own. That is why we no longer regulate oil cans or showerheads, but concentrate instead on what we can do better together rather than alone - such as tackling the refugee crisis or securing our external borders. Only in that way can we make people feel that Europe makes a tangible difference.” PeopleWayNeedsFeelsStatesTogetherCan DoDifferencesDealsClearPolicyMembersOfficeEuropeCrisisOilBordersRefugeePursuedTangibleInterferenceTacklingRefugee CrisisBrusselsBetter Together Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“I'd been influenced by reading books on art and colonies that existed in Paris and places like that and so when I came to Europe I came to France and I had very little money, and I had to live low and stayed in a bohemian section of Paris with a lot of other students, who were from medical school, science school and art school. We all lived in a kind of communal way and I was challenged politically, because I didn't have a clue and they would ask me questions about the Algerian War, which was very big in France in the late '50s.” WayKindLittlesArtBookWarBigsSchoolReadingAsksStudentsLateLowsEuropeMedicalFranceAsk MeParisReading BooksSectionsClueColonyArt SchoolBohemianLittle MoneyMedical School Author:Robert Redford
“In '83 I started travelling round Europe with my slide show. It wasn't until I moved to Europe and got accepted in a big way in Berlin in the '90s that I got acceptance by the big art world in New York. I didn't really get to be known, or in the market, til '93 in New York.” WorldWayArtShowsBigsKnownNew YorkAcceptanceEuropeMovedRoundsAcceptedSlidesBerlinArt World Author:Nan Goldin
“Marx's own illusion was to think that the working class movement, which he devoted his life to creating and strengthening, would both be socially and politically successful in the industrial nations of Western Europe, and that it would develop an entirely new way of human social life that would retain and even enhance the productive benefits of capitalism while overcoming the inhumanity and exploitation of capitalist social relations. Marx himself had no solutions to these problems. His object of study was capitalism itself.” ThinkingWayHumansProblemNationsSocialClassStudySuccessfulMovementObjectsBenefitsCreatingSolutionsIllusionCapitalismEuropeOvercomingRelationWesternProductiveCapitalistDevotedNew WaysExploitationWorking ClassSocial LifeStrengtheningInhumanityWestern EuropeSocial Relations Author:Allen W. Wood
“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
“When I turned twenty-five, I did a six-week trip around Europe by myself. I'd never really done a European trip before and I'd definitely never traveled alone like that. I just had such a great time meeting people. I had such a great time seeing new cultures and different ways that people think and different ways that they live and different ways that they see the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayDifferentDoneCultureFiveSeeingWeekSixEuropeTwentiesMeetingsDifferent WaysTraveledGreat TimesTwenty FiveNew Cultures Author:Tyler Hoechlin
“Early on in life I knew that I was a writer, that I just wanted to write, I love books, I love literature and after graduating college, I kind of wandered around in Europe learning languages and writing novels and never led anywhere. And then I got into like journalism in New York as a way to kind of maybe find my way into the field and it wasn't a good fit. It just wasn't right for me.” WayWritingKindBookWantedLiteratureLanguageNovelNew YorkFieldsCollegeFitEuropeJournalismMy WayGraduatesCollege GraduatesLearning LanguageLove Literature Author:Robert Greene
“Leaving Europe in my mind wasn't the best thing; it's not the best way of having that political voice. But that's the only voice people in Britain could have. People turned out in their droves to vote, more than for prime minister. So it was huge and very divisive.” PeopleWayMindPoliticalVoiceHugeEuropeVoteLeavingBest WayBest ThingsMinistersBritainPrimePrime Minister Author:Ruth Wilson
“In the US the problem has been, for instance, that Nazis have rights of free expression, right? But other kinds of racist speech is not protected. And you have to link the speech to conduct or to a certain kind of threat against minority population. I know that in Europe, this kind of framework doesn't exist in the same way so it's very difficult to make the analogy.” KnowsWayKindHas BeensProblemCertainDifficultRightsExpressionSpeechEuropeThreatPopulationInstanceMinoritiesRacistLinksProtectedNaziFrameworkAnalogiesFree Expression Author:Judith Butler
“In Western Europe, Turkey is regarded as uncivilized, so they can't come in into the European Union until they're civilized. I think it's the other way around. If you could achieve the level of civilization of, say, Turkish intelectuals, it would be quite an achievement.” IfsThinkingWayWould BeLevelsAchieveCivilizationAchievementEuropeUnionsWesternCivilizedTurkeysEuropean UnionTurkishWestern EuropeUncivilized Author:Noam Chomsky
“President Bush Sr. and Secretary Baker, way back when, told Gorbachev, "We are not going to advance NATO into Eastern Europe. We're not going to - we're not going to advance NATO into East Germany, if you allow the unification of Germany." Where is that pledge? Where is the logic behind a military alliance, devised in the time of communism, before the Berlin Wall fell, now being in the Ukraine, in Poland, in Estonia, in Latvia and Lithuania? I don't understand.” IfsWayPresidentBehindsMilitaryWallEuropeLogicEastCommunismGermanySecretaryEasternPresident BushAlliancesPledgeUkraineBerlinBack WhenNatoPolandBakersEastern EuropeUnificationBerlin WallGorbachevEast GermanyEstoniaWay Back WhenLithuaniaLatvia Author:Rashid Khalidi
“The desire for hope and change is easily understandable. In many ways it's even more dramatic in Europe.” WayDesireEuropeDramaticHope And Change Author:Noam Chomsky
“We have [unfriendly policies] here in Europe, too. We have them here in Germany, too. And to take up where the president left off, digitization is in a way a disruptive force, a disruptive technological force that brings about deep-seated change, transformation of a society.” WayLeftForcePresidentPolicyEuropeTransformationGermanyTechnologicalDisruptiveUnfriendly Author:Angela Merkel
“What I consistently say to young people - I say it in the United States, but I'll say it here in Germany and across Europe: Do not take for granted our systems of government and our way of life. I think there is a tendency, because we have lived in an era that has been largely stable and peaceful, at least in advanced countries, where living standards have generally gone up, there is a tendency I think to assume that that's always the case.” PeopleThinkingWayHas BeensCountryStatesGovernmentYoungUnitedCasesUnited StatesGoneStandardsEuropeAssumingTendenciesPeacefulGrantedErasGermanyStableConsistentlySystems Of Government Author:Barack Obama
“There's a big difference between how the Anglo-Saxon world views India, or viewed India, and the way Europe views India.” WorldWayBigsDifferencesViewsEuropeIndiaWorld ViewAnglo Saxon Author:Kabir Bedi
“The Anglo-Saxon world saw India as an underdeveloped country. The land of snake charmers, the cows on the street, that "ex-colony-backward-nation" kind of viewpoint, very condescending. Europe on the other hand, saw India in a more romantic, mystical, spiritual way, as a place that's a fountain of wisdom.” WorldWayKindCountryHandsSpiritualNationsSawsStreetsLandEuropeIndiaCowsMysticalSnakesFountainExesViewpointsColonyCondescendingAnglo SaxonCharmersUnderdeveloped Countries Author:Kabir Bedi
“If the threat is jihadism - and it is - and the threat is the destruction of Syria so that all of these refugees are swamping into Europe and changing the whole character and politics of Europe, this is the time to unite to find a way out.” IfsWayWholeCharacterEuropeDestructionThreatSyriaRefugee Author:John F. Kerry
“Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting to organize their country in their own way politically. This happens to be pretty much the opinion of western Europe and the other parts of the world.” PeopleWorldWayBelieveCountryStatesHappensUnitedOpinionUnited StatesPolicyEuropeWesternVietnamOrganizeWestern EuropeVietcong Author:Gore Vidal
“It's true that mostly in the last years, from the moment when Portugal was subjected to this policy of austerity, imposed by Europe, that I think many Portuguese became a little bit more left-leaning, and so did I too, I could not not care about the situation. I had to deal with it in some way.” ThinkingWayYearsLittlesMomentsCareLastsLeftBitsDealsSituationPolicyLittle BitEuropeLast YearPortugalPortugueseAusterity Author:Miguel Gomes
“Political uncertainty around the world has more than doubled since the election of Trump. To find anything comparable we have to go way back, to the late 1920s for example, the times of the Great Depression. Or think of the United Kingdom in the 1970s, when the International Monetary Fund had to help the country out with a dramatic rescue operation. Up until the Greek crisis, that was the last time that the IMF was forced to intervene to such an extent in Europe.” ThinkingWorldWayCountryHelpingLastsPoliticalUnitedExampleTrumpLateEuropeElectionCrisisInternationalKingdomsAround The WorldUncertaintyOperationsGreekDramaticFundRescueLast TimeMonetaryGreat DepressionUnited KingdomImf Author:Nicholas Bloom
“I believe that the future for a more effective, more efficient way of approaching the challenges Europe is facing is going to be more properly and more effectively handled and seen through the member states.” WayBelieveStatesI BelieveChallengesMembersEuropeEfficient Author:Viktor Orban
“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
“Once the Eastern Bloc collapsed, what I call 'historical spontaneity' prevailed and the countries that were subject to Soviet control naturally gravitated to the West. That's where they sought their security; I don't think there was a way to avoid that. If we tried to exclude them, we would have today not one Europe, we would have three Europes: one in the West, one in the middle and one in the East, and the middle would be insecure and a tempting target. The insecurity felt [today] by Eastern Europe would be replicated on a much larger and more consequential scale.” IfsThinkingWayCountryWould BeTodayThreeFeltMiddleSubjectsSecurityEuropeHistoricalWestEastScalesInsecurityTargetSovietInsecureEasternSpontaneityTemptingEastern Europe Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“When we talk about Orientalist painting, we're talking about painting generally from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, and some would say even into the twentieth, that allows Europe to look at Africa, Asia Minor, or East Asia in a way that's revelatory but also as a place in which you can empty yourself out. A place in which there is no place. It's an emptiness and a location at once.” WayLooksTalkingCenturyPaintingEuropeEmptyEastEmptinessMinorsLocationAsiaNineteenth CenturyEast Asia Author:Kehinde Wiley
“Feudal Europe is over, but it found its way into film culture. It found its way into postmodern painting culture, and we're all here talking about it today. It still lives. I don't believe in ghosts, but these are contemporary ghosts.” WayBelieveStillsTodayFilmCultureFoundTalkingPaintingEuropeDon't BelieveGhostContemporaryStill LifePostmodern Author:Kehinde Wiley
“The first thing to recognize is how fortunate Ireland is to be an island off the west coast of Europe, and therefore helped by the prevailing winds to escape the effects of acid rain and other problems. We were also lucky not to have had the same kind of industrial revolution and industry as some other countries. Our problem now is to create employment, but to do it in ways that value our environment.” WayFirstsKindCountryProblemValuesEnvironmentEffectsWindRevolutionIndustryLuckyEuropeRainWestEmploymentFortunateIslandsIrelandOther CountriesCoastOur EnvironmentAcidPrevailingSo LuckyIndustrial RevolutionWest CoastAcid Rain Author:Mary Robinson
“People who are not willing to respect not only the given law, but our democratic way of life, should not live in Europe.” PeopleWayShouldLawGivenWillingEuropeDemocratic Author:Vera Jourova
“There was a free election in Palestine, but it came out the wrong way. So instantly, the United States and Israel with Europe tagging along, moved to punish the Palestinian people, and punish them harshly, because they voted the wrong way in a free election. That's accepted here in the West as perfectly normal. That illustrates the deep hatred and contempt for democracy among western elites, so deep-seated they can't even perceive it when it's in front of their eyes. You punish people severely if they vote the wrong way in a free election.” PeopleIfsWayStatesEyeUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyFrontsNormalEuropeHatredVoteElectionMovedWestWesternIsraelAcceptedPerceiveContemptElitesPalestinianPalestineWrong WayPerfectly NormalFree Elections Author:Noam Chomsky
“If you go to former Yugoslav states, the Balkan states, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, the situation is dire. Not to mention Bosnia, which is just run like a colony. The way they used to stand up and sing hymns to President Tito, they now salute the EU flag. It's a very strange transition that we're witnessing in most of Europe, and I don't think it's going to work.” IfsThinkingWayStatesRunningUsedPresidentSituationStrangeEuropeFormerTransitionFlagsGoing To WorkColonyHymnsSaluteBosniaSerbiaBalkansCroatiaTito Author:Tariq Ali
“The EU is an alliance that the Americans control, in which the EU of course has a great deal of autonomy, but in which it still is very dependent on the United States, especially militarily, but not only in that respect. So to blame the Germans for everything is an easy way out for some of those suffering in Europe today.” WayStillsStatesTodaySufferingCoursesEasyUnitedDealsUnited StatesEuropeBlameDependentAutonomyAlliancesEasy Way Author:Tariq Ali
“Just the way in Europe, Paris, Copenhagen, and Stockholm, and Frankfurt, possibly and Berlin, certainly, all had important roles, because of independence. Because they were depending on themselves.” WayImportantRolesEuropeIndependenceParisBerlinStockholmCopenhagenFrankfurt Author:Jane Jacobs
“There's a real connection between the history of print in Europe and nationalism, and how those two things could be formed. I think they may both now be ending, for good and bad, but I think mainly for good. Either globalism was supposed to make people all realize this is one big business going on and we should know what's going on everywhere, or it makes people say, "I don't want to become part of this thing. I want to be incredibly different from you and I want to uphold my local behavior." Dress a certain way.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantShouldMayTwoDifferentRealBigsCertainRealizingBehaviorEuropeConnectionsDressesLocalsTwo ThingsNationalismPrintGood And BadBig BusinessGlobalismReal Connection Author:Ben Katchor
“Many people just won't connect the social problems with the history of dispossession of the aboriginals. There is one problem with pro-Palestinian activists in Europe and the U.S. with the way they portray Israel as though it were an island of evil in an ocean of goodwill. Unfortunately we are not. This world is not made of benign, progressive states with Israel as the one exception.” PeopleWorldWayMadeStatesProblemEvilSocialThis WorldOceanEuropeIsraelIslandsExceptionProgressiveActivistPalestinianGoodwillBenignAboriginalSocial Problems Author:Amira Hass
“People ask me if I ever feel outside the Hollywood loop, and I never do, because both of us do a lot of theatre, so it's great for New York and it's also half-way between Europe and the west coast, so it's the best of both worlds.” PeopleIfsWorldWayFeelsAsksHalfNew YorkEuropeHollywoodWestTheatreAsk MeCoastLoopsWest CoastHalf WayBest Of Both Worlds Author:Liam Neeson
“Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.” WayPastNationsPolicyEuropeTradeSlaveWesternHarmEngagedHemisphereUndoingSlave TradeWestern Europe Author:Charles Rangel