"If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration."

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Source : "'A Front Line Between North and South'". Interview with Fiona Ehlers and Hans Hoyng, www.spiegel.de. August 06, 2012.

Mario Monti

#Breakup Quotes #Europe Quotes #Government Quotes

“So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap.”
“And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear; For love, all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room, an everywhere. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown, Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.”
“She divorced her husband, y' know. I never knew him, it was before I met Jane. Apparently she came back from work one mornin' an' found her husband in bed with the milkman. With the milkman, honest to God. Well, apparently, from that day forward Jane was a feminist. An' I've noticed, she never takes milk in her tea.”

Source : "Shirley Valentine". Book by Willy Russell, 1986.
“Growing up I didn't watch movies.”
“I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.”
“Richard Hadlee has the appearance of a rickety church steeple and a severe manner which suggests that women are not likely to be ordained yet.”
“Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody has a right to decent housing, decent food and affordable medical care. History should have taught us that when we hear people talk this stuff - watch out!”
“What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?”

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