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Quotes of the week (VIII)

Foreign Policy:
The Top 10 Craziest Things Ever Said During a U.N. Speech
David Mitchell:
If academic endeavour had always been vetted in advance for practicality, we wouldn’t have the aeroplane or the iPhone, just a better mammoth trap.
Richard Laming
It is ironic that the people who complain most about the complexity of the treaty are the [...]

Quotes of the Week (VII)

… ok, “week” as in “last 12 weeks”… and as you can see  a rather short and  subjective list…
Neil MacFarlane
We may be living post-historically. Russia is not.
Russia Today
Opposition candidates will get the right to lose elections.
Mark Danner
If Everybody Knew, Who’s To Blame?
Timothy Garton Ash
Europe is nice, boring and irrelevant. In many ways this is a [...]

Quotes of the Week (VI)

Richard Laming (Federal Union Blog)
The powers that the EU ought to have are those that the member states cannot exercise effectively on their own: no more and no less.
Nosemonkey:
the EU’s “democratic deficit”[...] is actually preserving the sovereignty of the member states.
Jean Quatremer:
(Solana) L’homme qui “parle toutes les langues sans qu’on puisse en comprendre aucune”.
Joschka Fischer:
Karlsruhe [...]

Quotes of the week (V)

Just a reminder: there were actually European Parliament elections last week…
Francisco G. Basterra (El Pais)
Global Vote, local mindset.
Lykke Friis
The EU elections are like a European soccer championship played in each national league with aggregated results.
Evenimentul Zilei
Send in the Clowns.
NikOs
To the 57% of Europeans: Not voting and at the same time speaking about a [...]

Quotes of the week (IV)

Poul Nyrup Rasmussen:
In 2004 Barroso was a compromise candidate, in 2009 he is a compromised candidate.
Daily Mail’s Chief Leader Writer
We couldn’t report on what is going on in Europe, and no paper can because the readers won’t wear it. It is simply not conceivable that we would cover, for example, the European Parliament.
Martin Wolf (FT)
The [...]

Quotes of the week (III)

What have we learnt this week?
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen:

I would have preferred the PES to have a candidate for the President of the European Commission, but we do not, and we will not before the elections.

Andrew Moravcsik:
Final anecdote: On my way back out to Heathrow I quizzed the cabby about the European elections. Exceptionally, [...]

Quotes of the week (II)

Another post in this neglected “wannabe series“.
“I don’t want to run auto companies, and I don’t want to run banks. I’ve got two wars I’ve got to run already – I’ve got more than enough to do.”  Barack Obama (via euromatt)
At first sight the idea of centre-right communists sounds as odd as “moderate Trotskyites” or [...]

Quotes of the week

Although the title suggests a weekly feature I doubt that I would find something every week. To be honest I just could not come up with a better title … so here we go with some remarkable statements:
via Times Online
I am going to hang Saakashvili by the balls,” Mr Putin declared.
Mr Sarkozy thought he had [...]