Union Quotes

At the core of the European Union must be, as it is now, the single market. Britain is at the heart of that Single Market, and must remain so.

The fall of the Berlin Wall really demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt that there was a bad system, and what subsequently happened in the Soviet Union, that that system was a failure.

Today the main, over-riding purpose of the European Union is different: not to win peace, but to secure prosperity.

Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under Brezhnev like the U.S. Post Office.

Unlike the former Soviet Union that respected the strength of West, Putin's Russia ignores talk of sanctions, claims land, and supports rebels in Ukraine with impunity.

The strategic partnership between the European Union and the United States is rooted in our shared values of freedom, human rights, democracy and a belief in the market economy.

I want the European Union to be a success. And I want a relationship between Britain and the EU that keeps us in it.

It [European Union] has kept the peace in Europe. Countries used to fight and now they talk. We should be attached to that.

Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.

In the West, since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union, the one discipline both the official and unofficial cultures have united in casting aside has been history.

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.

As a child I perceived violence as a sort of natural law. In the totalitarian Soviet Union, oppression held everything together. It was the sinister energy of our country.

The European Union's enlargement is part of the natural process of integration and globalisation that is underway in the world today.

France would be reluctant to embrace any proposal by the European Commission to slash agricultural tariffs if it threatened the European Union's Common Agriculture Policy .

The euro area must not be treated as an "opt out" from the European Union.

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.

In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.

Now that Britain has voted to leave, I think the country deserves to have a leader who believes in Britain outside the European Union and who also has experience at the highest level of government.

I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.

The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.

It is painful to talk about it, but even with its 110,000 elite soldiers, the Soviet Union never managed to gain control over the entire Afghan territory.

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.

The Soviet Union was pretty much what Lenin and Trotsky said it was.

You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget.

I said in court a long time ago that I didn't see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave them, nor that the United States was significantly harmed.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.

Of course, in no case would we allow the creation of a regional union in the Balkans, directed against the Soviet Union and Bulgaria.

The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to offset the great superiority that the Soviet Union has on the western front against the NATO nations.

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?

The rout of fascism, in which the Soviet Union played the decisive role, generated a mighty tide of socio-political changes which swept across the globe.

They [The Soviet Union] are the focus of evil in the modern world.

I felt it was vital to stress the importance of national security in this debate and the need for a clear path to our exit from the European Union. I hope I have achieved both these objectives.

All peoples enjoy freedom, and freedom for the development of their culture... There is no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union at all... I have many friends who are Jews.

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

Every infantryman in the Soviet Army carries with him a small spade. When he is given the order to halt he immediately lies flat and starts to dig a hole in the ground beside him.

The entire European Union is a left-wing dream

In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union.

Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point.

I've never been to the Soviet Union and the main reason for that is I was warned several times by people from the KGB who had defected to the West that it would be very unsafe for me to go there

When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.

The savings rate in Italy is high, but the markets do not trust Italy even though it's the third largest economy in the European Union and the eighth in the world.

When the Soviet Union was dissolved, most of us didn't even have the feeling that the country was falling apart. We thought we would continue with our lives as in the past, but as good neighbors.

It's a war to control our children. State control through drugs, just as practiced in the Soviet Union. With Hillary [Clinton] and Tipper [Gore] leading the charge!

Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.

Why not admit that the words separation and church do not even appear in the US Constitution, he added. Instead, they do appear in Article 52 of the Constitution of the Soviet Union.

Angela Merkel wants to impose her policies on others. This will lead to an explosion of the European Union.

Writers are engineers of human souls.

After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.