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If you put all the European countries together, we are the biggest economy in the world. -- George Papandreou
A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries. -- Carlos Salinas de Gortari
By common consent, most European countries support the maintenance of robust welfare states and are comfortable with taxation systems that support them. -- Charles Kennedy
Finland, and all the other European countries, we are too dependent on imported energy. We should be using a broader variety of energy resources. -- Tarja Halonen
It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown. -- Dalai Lama
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
The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English. -- Bobby Jindal
Though there are laws against blasphemy and insult to religion in many European countries, France has institutionalised its anti-clerical past by proscribing religion from public life. -- Pankaj Mishra
It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time. -- William Hague
But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there. -- William Labov
There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege. -- Jesse Ventura
In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me. -- Carl Hagelin
I think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there's this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can't really do any great art unless you're suffering. -- Joel Kinnaman
It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory. -- Vaclav Klaus
In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In the welfare state, there is no shame in doing so. -- Dennis Prager
If the Chinese can't buy U.S. products, they'll buy them from European countries and then develop stronger economic ties with France and Germany and perhaps side more with those countries when international issues flare up. -- Gary Locke
And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily. -- Giovanni Agnelli
In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements. -- Fredric Jameson
Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there. In some European countries, businesses were even allowed to deduct bribes as an expense. -- James Surowiecki
For 200 years, the dominant powers have also been the colonial powers: the European countries, the U.S. and Japan. They have never been required to pay their dues for what they did to those whom they possessed and treated with contempt. -- Martin Jacques
When I did a year-long study in 2005 of European countries integrating Muslims into their cultures, France came in the lowest of the rank. Sweden was not far behind, though, which is worrying, as racism in France is much closer to the bone. -- Janine di Giovanni
After the oil crisis of 1973, many European countries tightened restrictions on immigrants. By then, millions of Muslims had decided to settle in Europe, preferring the social segregation and racial discrimination they found in the West to political and economic turmoil at home. -- Pankaj Mishra
When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countries had empires. -- Doris Lessing
I learned English at school, or at least that's how it started. Also, in Holland - as opposed to some other European countries - we don't dub anything, so as a kid growing up, always watching English and American movies in their original language really helped. -- Michiel Huisman
Many European countries, as well as Australia, Canada, Israel, and New Zealand, have adopted legislation that creates a 'public lending right', where the government recognises that enabling hundreds of people to read a single copy of a book provides a public good, but that doing so is likely to reduce sales of the book. -- Peter Singer
We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way. -- Hillary Clinton
Horsemeat in many European and Asian countries is consumed as a delicacy. -- Elton Gallegly
The Italian economy is certainly the weakest of the big European countries. -- Romano Prodi
You can't deepen the European Union against the wishes of the European countries. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries. -- Mikhail Saakashvili
Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries. -- Mikhail Saakashvili
America doesn't border on Muslim countries. European countries do and that seems to be a fundamental difference. -- Samuel P. Huntington
It is not acceptable that European Union countries are divided into those who give and those who take. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
I'm not a lukewarm European. I know that the German-French friendship is indispensable, no matter who the countries' leaders are. -- Francois Hollande
American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France. -- Suzanne Fields
America is very decentralized in how it supports the humanities, unlike European countries where virtually everything stems from the central government. -- Jim Leach
If European countries want to cater to U.S. foreign policy interests, I don't think that they stand to gain anything. -- Vladimir Putin
It [European Union] has kept the peace in Europe. Countries used to fight and now they talk. We should be attached to that. -- David Cameron
The European countries are really hoping to do well in the Olympics. If they win gold medals, they can use them as cash. -- David Letterman
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. -- Denis Diderot
Frankly, I'd love to see a multiparty system, like we have in some of our European countries. But I'm not sure how to get there. -- Julianne Malveaux
A large country with such outstanding economic performance as Germany cannot forget that it owes some of its success to demand from other European countries. -- Francois Hollande
On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship. -- Nathan Deal
The countries of Europe are too small to guarantee their peoples the necessary prosperity and social development. The European states must constitute themselves into a federation. -- Jean Monnet
For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence. -- Noam Chomsky
In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries. -- Antonio Tabucchi
Terrorism is an evil that threatens all the countries in Europe. Vigorous cooperation in the European Union and worldwide is crucial in order to meet this evil head on. -- Jan Peter Balkenende
If you want to go to Spain or you want to go to France or you want go to [any] southern European countries, [Lisbon] is a great place to [connect]. -- David Neeleman
Now, some of the most dangerous places for women to be in the world are modern, Western, rich European countries. Why? One reason. Islamic immigration - it's got to stop. -- Milo Yiannopoulos
Franchement, quand je survole certains pays europÃ©ens (les Ã©oliennes) ne donne pas envie. (Frankly, when I fly over some European countries, their turbines don't fill me with envy.) -- Nicolas Sarkozy
Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be wrong to force them all to follow the same course. -- Vaclav Klaus
The difficulties of many European countries derive from their corporatism: state projects serving cronies and vast social protection programmes, both run by elites. These surged in the 1970s and 1980s. -- Edmund Phelps

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