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The saddest country I went to was Romania, years ago, during Ceausescu's rule. -- Christopher Lee
I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it. -- Bela Karolyi
One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989. -- Nadia Comaneci
The United States is the only country left now, bar Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, that has this all-government system. -- John Mica
There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout. -- Traian Basescu
Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way. -- Jacques Chirac
Romania will not be able to evolve if it continues to take cruel decisions against sensitive creatures, which are under the protection of European law. -- Brigitte Bardot
Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989. -- Nadia Comaneci
I assure Romanians that once I return... I will try and generate a sentiment of reconciliation in society. Divisions in society must be stopped, they must be annihilated, because Romania needs all its energy to... integrate into the civilized world. -- Traian Basescu
Romania are more Portuguese than German. -- Barry Venison
Romania strongly supports Turkey's E.U. accession. -- Victor Ponta
I am a committed European; a united Europe is Romania's future. -- Victor Ponta
My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania. -- Herbie Mann
Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq. -- Traian Basescu
Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels. -- Kiefer Sutherland
When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied. -- Rhona Mitra
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania. -- Dorothy Parker
Prostitution, black marketeering, and informing on ones neighbors and friends all had such a deep-rooted tradition in Romania that there was a charming naturalness and innocence about it. -- Robert D. Kaplan
We live in a world where in the movie you can disembowel someone in a youth hostel in Romania, but you can't show people having sex. I think it's weird. -- Seth Rogen
In Romania, I train on a bar that is bent. My gym has bad lighting and very little heat in the winters. Here in America, you have everything you need to train. It's not in the bar or the gym or the platform it's in you. -- Nicu Vlad
Theres a burgeoning film scene in Romania. -- Harry Lloyd
Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential. -- Victor Ponta
There is no breach of European rules committed by companies from Romania or on Romanian territory. -- Victor Ponta
Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now. -- Carly Patterson
In Romania, we have pledged to create a modern public service: well-educated, appropriately rewarded and above all, de-politicized. -- Victor Ponta
Where are we going? You never told me." "My home in Romania." Wow, this guy wasn't kidding with his Dracula fixation. -- Jeaniene Frost
Many Europeans are confused by the terms Roma and Romania. They wonder if it is an ethnicity or a nation of 22 million citizens. -- Traian Basescu
Romania can be a linchpin in delivering gas to its neighbors and even become an energy exporter for its neighbors across Central and Eastern Europe. -- Joe Biden
I ask you to stand by my side in the next five years. We shall live a good life in a Romania of all Romanians. -- Traian Basescu
I go and film 50 people in Israel, 50 people in Russia, and 50 people in Romania, in Paris, because I really like to get some particles of something real. -- Michal Rovner
I was born in Romania and later lived in Vienna, Austria, for a few years, and I eventually made my way over to New York in '95. -- Sebastian Stan
Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep 'em down in L.A. -- Philip Kaufman
In my little town, Sighet, which is in Romania, Hungary-Romania, but a real shtetl, a little [Jewish] village - and we began with the Chumash [Pentateuch], probably at age four. -- Elie Wiesel
Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute. -- Noam Chomsky
The Aegis Ashore sites in Poland and Romania are designed to counter long-range ballistic missiles that may be launched from other nations, outside of the Euro-Atlantic area, against our European NATO partners. -- James A. Winnefeld, Jr.
More than ever, Romania now needs to see that a force exists that puts an end to Ponta and Antonescu's abuses and coup d'etat. This force is none other than the Romanian people. -- Traian Basescu
Iran also has an extensive missile development programme. Iranian officials declare that the range of their modified Shahab-3 missiles is 2,000km, putting allied countries such as Turkey, Greece, Romania, and Bulgaria within reach. -- Anders Fogh Rasmussen
We are the country that has attracted the biggest volume of foreign investment in southeastern Europe in the past few years. Romania doesn't need to beat itself, believing that it is a second-class citizen. -- Traian Basescu
The increase in salaries at private companies has exploded, and Romania also faces a labor shortage, especially in construction. We believe that the Romanian market will remain an incentive, so that migration will not be an issue. -- Traian Basescu
Romania will always defend the Roma's right to move freely in Europe. They are European citizens and as long as there is no evidence they broke the law they should enjoy the same rights of any European citizen. -- Traian Basescu
In so-called communist Romania, chess was held in high esteem, even if our champions were weaker than the Soviets. This game, this "sport of the mind," was at the time a better way to establish your reputation than literature. -- Dumitru Tepeneag
When I was the captain of a ship I never failed to bring my ship to port and I won't fail to bring Romania to safe harbor. The belief that the president no longer represents the people is false. -- Traian Basescu
In Romania, of course, gymnastics is among the most popular sports, and my parents had a dream of escaping the Ceausescu regime and giving their child a better life. So they came to the United States and put me in gymnastics. -- Dominique Moceanu
One of the great things about the Internet is that people are excited about music and wanna hear a random album from a band somewhere in Romania or something, and to listen to all sorts of stuff from around the world. -- Ed Droste
For as long as I can remember, my mother went to church every single Sunday. She was born and raised in Romania as a person with limited means, and faith was something she could rely on - something that was free. -- Dominique Moceanu
The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.' -- Octavian Paler
As my editor had no desire to frighten readers with the Romanian pages, he had them translated and published the whole thing in French in 1984. It was only years later, in Romania, that I was able to publish the book as I wrote it. -- Dumitru Tepeneag
I've had the great honor of traveling across the world on behalf of our country. I've been to countries where governments either forced women to have abortions, like they used to do in China, or forced women to bear children, like the used to do in Romania. -- Hillary Clinton
Even the National Bank of Romania doesn't have the huge resources needed to intervene in the market and keep the leu at an acceptable level, because they're drawing close to a floor below which the bank's reserves can't drop. The central bank has to wait for a moment of calm to efficiently conduct its interventions. -- Traian Basescu
I think that 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' was mentally taxing, if only because I had to go to a Christmas party shortly after I had wrapped photography in Romania at two in the morning as the Ghost Rider. The invitation had a Christmas ornament on it with Ghost Rider's face on it as a tree. -- Nicolas Cage
You arrogant, overpublicized, showy old bat, what are you waiting for? Aren't you the king of all bogeymen? The legend children fear will devour them if they misbehave? Come on Vlad, live up to your reputation! If you can't burn to death one Egyptian vampire chained to a wall how did you ever drive the Turks from Romania? -- Jeaniene Frost
Back in Romania, always I was struggling to compete with Vladislav Rastorotsky, the great Russian coach of Lyudmila Turishcheva. He was a powerful coach, internationally. I took him like the major challenge of my life, and pretty soon I'm beating him and we are pushing each other so hard, so fierce. But out of the arena, we are friends. -- Bela Karolyi
I came here from Romania when I was 12 years old. I had an accent. High school was tough a little bit for a few years. I wanted to fit in. I wanted to be liked. I wanted to be good-looking. I wanted to be popular. I spent a lot of time thinking, 'What are these people going to think of me?' -- Sebastian Stan

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