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The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans. -- Phyllis Schlafly
More than 50% of significant new regulations that impact on business in the UK now emanate from the EU. -- John Hutton
The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels. -- William Hague
As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU. -- Angela Merkel
To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries. -- Aleksander Kwasniewski
When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore. -- Nigel Farage
Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out and held accountable. -- William Hague
There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms is self-defeating. Anyway, the Muslims have their own enlightenment. -- James Buchan
Europe needs an engine, and the Franco-German motor has provided that when the two nations have converged on important topics during critical periods. But that partnership shouldn't be a directorate for other EU members. -- Francois Hollande
People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change. -- William Hague
My vision is to have an independent Kosovo, democratic, with a politically tolerant society and with a solid economy, integrated into the EU, the NATO and to continue with our good relations with the USA. -- Ibrahim Rugova
The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality. -- Tarja Halonen
Our objective must therefore be to ensure EU better regulation contributes towards delivering a modern European Union which relentlessly focuses on building a dynamic and innovative economy equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century. -- John Hutton
We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU. -- Nigel Farage
There is a growing frustration that the EU is seen as something that is done to people rather than acting on their behalf. And this is being intensified by the very solutions required to resolve the economic problems. -- David Cameron
The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits. -- Bill Gates
Our participation in the single market, and our ability to help set its rules is the principal reason for our membership of the EU. So it is a vital interest for us to protect the integrity and fairness of the single market for all its members. -- David Cameron
EU leaders must act over immigration -- Salil Shetty
Serbia stands firmly on the EU path. -- Ivica Dacic
Everyone should respect the sovereignty of the EU countries. -- Evangelos Venizelos
The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years. -- Yanis Varoufakis
Leaving the EU isn't the answer to Britain's problems. -- Sadiq Khan
The EU project is to create a country called Europe. -- John Redwood
EU didn't advance our [Eastern Europe] democracy by a single millimeter. -- Vaclav Klaus
It's the FSA and its plethora of EU bodies that's failed. -- Nigel Farage
The EU is the old Soviet Union dressed in Western clothes -- Mikhail Gorbachev
Everybody who comes to the EU as a migrant is basically coming illegally. -- Viktor Orban
The EU should have consolidated its different presences and purposes in Kosovo earlier. -- Emma Bonino
Rather than bring peace and harmony, the EU will cause insurgency and violence. -- Nigel Farage
In the EU, we agree that the pressures causing migration must be reduced. -- Wolfgang Schauble
The EU will not stop wars: it wants an army to fight them. -- John Redwood
It remains overwhelmingly and compellingly in Britain's national interest that the EU should succeed. -- Theresa May
The EU should help the emergence of "organized multipolarity" in the currently non-polar world. -- Laurent Fabius
Turkey will "inevitably" join the EU in our lifetime unless we vote to leave. -- Michael Gove
It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU. -- Phyllis Schlafly
We are not leaving the EU, we are rejoining the rest of the world. -- Liam Fox
One thing which frustrates me about state pensions is the disparity between EU countries. -- Geoff Capes
It is an illusion to think that [EU] states can hold on to their autonomy. -- Hans Tietmeyer
Donald Trump is not just a problem for the EU, but for the whole world. -- Martin Schulz
The use of EU summits to frame political victories or defeats is an annoying habit. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better. -- Boris Johnson
Political leaders need to formulate long-term EU goals that show: Yes, we want to stay together. -- Martin Schulz
NATO and the EU have also agreed on permanent arrangements on consultation and cooperation between themselves. -- Lord Robertson
In the days before the vote, I bet that the British would stay in the EU. -- Martin Schulz
The EU must take on new responsibilities. And these new responsibilities call for intensifying the integration process. -- Romano Prodi
The EU is mired in deep structural crisis. Greece, Portugal and Ireland cannot survive inside the Euro. -- Nigel Farage
The advantages we gain from EU membership clearly and categorically outweigh any disadvantages that come with it. -- Ruth Davidson
If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow. -- John Bruton
Croatia did not want Europe to be divided as to the start of Croatia's EU entry talks. -- Stjepan Mesic
I think that the EU with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment. -- Angela Merkel
Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe. -- William Hague
Boris [ Johnson]and Dave [Cameron] gnawed each other's testicles [during the Tory civil war which blighted the EU referendum]. -- Ken Livingstone
...within ten years 80% of our economic legislation, perhaps even fiscal and social as well' would come from the EU. -- Jacques Delors
It's time to recognize that the EU is beyond reform and deserves to be put out of its misery. -- Roger Helmer
U.S. companies earn more from their investments in the EU than in the rest of the world combined. -- John Bruton
I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe. -- Peter Mandelson
I put my money on Brexit. The EU Financial Stability Commissioner, Jonathan Hill from Britain, still owes me a pound. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU. -- David Cameron
Poland is a sovereign state. We want the same rights as all other EU countries. Nothing more, but nothing less, either. -- Jaroslaw Kaczynski
The EU leaves us no freedom to determine our own immigration and asylum laws. That's why leaving the EU is necessary. -- Geert Wilders
Just as I believe that Britain should want to remain in the EU so the EU should want us to stay. -- David Cameron
What we should be doing in the EU as a whole is more economic integration in the single market, rather than less. -- Nick Clegg
The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. -- David Cameron
I really and definitely think that France has the capability to come forward. The EU should maintain their own position, without influence. -- Ali Larijani
The EU is an unique project that replaced war with peace, hate with solidarity. Overwhelming emotion for awarding of Nobel prize to EU -- Martin Schulz
The EU is on the brink of becoming a European Federation by the year 2010... I feel sure that Britain will fall in line. -- Joschka Fischer
There are surely people in London who would love to play us off against each other. That would be disastrous for the EU. -- Martin Schulz
Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich. -- Ben Stein
Matt Le Tissier had firm views about Austria's reluctance to allow Turkey full membership of the EU last Saturday, I seem to recall. -- Jeff Stelling
Before we talk about further accessions, we have to consolidate the European Union internally. People are increasingly losing faith in the EU's effectiveness. -- Martin Schulz
People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say. -- William Hague
The problem with us EU politicians is that we approach everything with cool rationality, and then wonder why we don't win people over emotionally. -- Martin Schulz
Of course former colonial powers are always more present and influential. They're the ones who need to defend the EU's values on the frontlines. -- Alvaro de Vasconcelos
Any attempt to wriggle, especially from leadership candidates who campaigned to leave the EU by focusing on immigration, will be unacceptable to the public. -- Theresa May
I want the European Union to be a success. And I want a relationship between Britain and the EU that keeps us in it. -- David Cameron
I admire [Alex] Salmond in many ways but my problem with him has always been this independence thing within the EU, which is rubbish. -- Nigel Farage
All the people I talk to, increasingly, can see that the emperor has got no clothes. The case for leaving [the EU] is now overwhelming. -- Boris Johnson
Stories are invented: Juncker wants to introduce the euro everywhere or immediately deepen the EU - although I publicly stated the opposite that same day. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
As somebody who campaigned to leave the EU, I believe we have a bright future ahead of us- but we have to get it right. -- Chris Grayling
Adding an overarching tier of tyrants the EU to European governments has benefited Europeans as a second hangman enhances the health of a condemned man. -- Ilana Mercer
Under Hitler or Stalin a GÃ³ral [Tatra-highlander] could choose to produce oscypek [smoked cheese] however he preferred. Nowadays the EU official is watching him. -- Janusz Korwin-Mikke
Since January 1993 there have been 27 other countries not in the EU that have done better than the UK at exporting goods into the single market. -- Boris Johnson
I find it surprising, however, that many German politicians generally oppose referendums, but then when it's an EU matter, they immediately scream for a plebiscite. -- Martin Schulz
I am disgusted at the way May has been speaking. The EU nationals living in the UK came here legally and they have protected rights. -- Nigel Farage
If the EU and its 25 member states make a clever use of all policy instruments, broadband for all Europeans is certainly not out of reach by 2010. -- Viviane Reding
In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want. -- Catherine Ashton
The principle of equal pay for equal work is written in the EU Treaties since 1957. It is high time that it is put in practice everywhere. -- Viviane Reding
The American agenda is sweeping everything before it, and although it's not perfect, the EU is better on environmental issues. It's a less rapacious form of capitalism. -- Ken Livingstone
The promise to leave the European Union, end the supremacy of EU law and take back control of our democracy. With my leadership, it will be delivered. -- Michael Gove
Britain, Europe's second largest economy, a member of the G-7 and the UN Security Council, wants to leave the EU. That weakens us and it weakens Britain. -- Martin Schulz
With the EU taking in ten more countries and adopting a new Constitution, organisations need more than ever intelligent professional help in engaging with the EU institutions. -- Nick Clegg
... new EU embassies lack the expertise in the field of culture and given the budget cuts in all Member States it is important to confront this challenge together. -- Pierre Vimont
You can remain friends, even without EU membership. The PrÃ¼m Convention, according to which data for combatting crime is exchanged, is a good example of international cooperation. -- Geert Wilders
The EU is not going to attack the United States. Supposedly, China or the EU was doing this on the UScan you imagine what the blowout would be? -- Gay Mitchell
The British people voted for change.They sent us a clear instruction that they want Britain to leave the European Union and end the supremacy of EU law. -- Michael Gove
The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the EU and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true, -- Atifete Jahjaga
I am very proud that Britain has helped to lead a stronger case on climate change in the EU and the EU has led the case across the world. -- Liz Kendall
The vast majority of Muslim residents of the United Kingdom voted to stay in the EU. And the balance of the British population voted to leave the European Union. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The vast majority of Muslim residents of the United Kingdom voted to stay in the EU. And the balance of the British population voted to leave the European Union. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy. -- David Korten
Primarily, Warsaw and Brussels share the central basic values of the EU: human dignity, democracy, and the religious freedom of every single human being. We believe in these values. -- Jaroslaw Kaczynski
The West appears to have decided for the Ukrainian people what their choice is. The EU does not condemn violent actions in Ukraine which are punishable in the West. -- Sergey Lavrov
One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to change their laws to enable mass surveillance. -- Edward Snowden
Globalisation, which benefits only multi-national companies and takes away all sense of local or national pride and identity, is the biggest threat facing all the member states of the EU. -- Steve Blake
No one imposes things on anyone in Europe. That's not my notion, nor is it my temperament. The EU has always functioned under the banner of respect, equilibrium and trust. -- Francois Hollande
We had a lot of international help especially from the EU and USA, which helped us to get out of this phase of emergency, to give some dynamism to Kosova. -- Ibrahim Rugova
The [EU] Council of Ministers will have far more power over the budgets of member states than the federal government in the United States has over the budget of Texas. -- Jean-Claude Trichet
Referendums have always posed a threat when it comes to EU policy, because EU policy is complicated. They're an opportunity for those from all political camps who like to oversimplify things. -- Martin Schulz
If the EU doesnÂ?'t want Turkey, they should say it now and clearly. If we are not wanted, then both sides donÂ?t need to waste their time with negotiations. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Leaving [from EU] will allow us to return real democratic control to important areas of national life; from international trade, the right to work and live in Britain to business regulation. -- Gisela Stuart
I have another explanation [of Brexit]: In its 43 years of EU membership, Britain has never been able to decide whether it wants to fully or only partially belong to the EU. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
Yet in order to make sure the European social model keeps up with the pace of economic change that is now necessary, the EU must embrace a new approach to lawmaking. -- John Hutton
The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together. -- William Hague
The key problem is the debt restructuring in the euro zone. As long as the debt burden is not reduced, there is no chance of the weaker EU countries regaining competitiveness. -- George Soros
It horrifies me how much it costs to put on shows now, mainly due to EU regulations. The freedom to be entrepreneurial is no longer there. It's a massive business now. -- Cameron Mackintosh
There are certainly major differences between Poland's policies and those of the old EU countries. Debates are going on in Brussels over a shared foreign policy and even a shared foreign minister. -- Lech Kaczynski
Of course, the EU is not going to fall apart, but at best it will stagnate for the foreseeable future and we will be dealing with quite a lot of internal chaos. -- Peter Mandelson
Greece is not a country that can be humiliated. It is a matter of finding an intersection between the reasonable elements of both sides [EU and Greece] which has to be done. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU. -- Francois Hollande
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). -- Paul Virilio

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