Jose Manuel Barroso Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Smart, sustainable, inclusive growth is the key to job-creation and the future prosperity of Europe.”

“The E.U. is founded on the Treaties which apply only to the Member States who have agreed and ratified them.”

“The Eurogroup decisions are always taken unanimously.”

“I very often compare relations between states to relations with people. Sometimes we are nicer to those we don't know well, who are not our friends, than we are to our friends, because with our friends we don't need to be nice all the time.”

“There's a tendency in many politicians to become inward-looking, more protectionist, more nationalistic and more defensive, in the bad sense of the word.”

“You have to understand that to have a revolution when you are 18 years old is completely different from normal political leaders who were born in a democracy and will die in a democracy and never to have experienced that change. I have seen that change.”