#rope

I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#family #happy #i #i do #inherit

Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#among #began #discussions #europeans #found

After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#beyond #completely #european #european governments #failed

In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#any #down #estimate #europe #magnitude

I was traveling on our tour bus through Europe and I was thinking I want to have long blonde hair. ↗

— Nina Hagen

#blonde hair #bus #europe #hair #i

I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies and agencies and their offices in Brussels. ↗

— William Hague

#agencies #brussels #bureaucracies #cabinet #campaign

People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change. ↗

— William Hague

#decided #decision-making #eu #european #everything

Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe. ↗

— William Hague

#error #eu #europe #great #long-term

We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights. ↗

— William Hague

#democracy #direction #directly #european #european union

I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

#european #even #i #i always #i wish