Olli Rehn quotes

Olli Rehn quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Europe will get a stable and prosperous Turkey.”
-- Olli Rehn

Source : "Sweet and sour climax to Turkey's long march" by Nicholas Watt, Helena Smith, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2005.

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“We need to consolidate our enlargement agenda but be cautious with new commitments.”
-- Olli Rehn

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“Under the guidance of the Reich, Europe would speedily have become unified. Once the Jewish poison had been eradicated, unification would have been an easy matter. France and Italy, each defeated in turn at an interval of a few months by the two Germanic Powers, would have been well out of it. Both would have had to renounce their inappropriate aspirations to greatness. At the same time they would have had to renounce their pretensions in North Africa and the Near East; and that would have allowed Europe to pursue a bold policy of friendship towards Islam. (4th February 1945)”
“Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).”
“I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.”
“It (Arsenal) is an English club but not an English success. It's probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.”
“Turkey has worked alongside its allies from the beginning.”
“What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen.”
“Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kowtow before any United States proconsul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.”

Source : New York Herald Tribune, June 30, 1953.
“Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society.”
“We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.”
“At least being prosperous set one apart in England; here it guaranteed nothing, not even taste.”

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