Jose Manuel Barroso Quotes & Sayings

“There is no stability without solidarity and no solidarity without stability.”

“What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open.”

“In the age of globalisation, pooled sovereignty means more power, not less.”

“Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact with great qualities of life.”

“The dynamic of globalisation in financial and economic terms, but also in geopolitical terms, confronts Europeans with a stark choice: live together, share a common destiny and count in the world; or face the prospect of disunity and decline.”

“Let us not forget that the European Community started as a project for peace after the terrible Second World War. And today people take for granted the freedom to travel, to study, to work abroad. And the citizens of one country have almost exactly the same rights as another country.”

“I think diversity can also be a resource, an asset, especially in a world that is becoming globalized, to deal with difference, to deal with variety, to deal with complexity.”

“A new state, if it wants to join the European Union, has to apply to become a member of the European Union like any state.”

“By the way, the European Union Member States together - even the euro area Member States together - are by far the biggest contributors to the IMF.”

“Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.”