Jose Manuel Barroso's Quotes

I am a very committed European.

I believe that Europe without Britain at the heart will be less reform-driven, less open, less international Europe.

I don't know why my son was born conservative.

I have full confidence in the IMF. It is a very strong international institution.

I say to my friends, 'Don't just listen to the vuvuzelas; look at who scores the goals.' And this is the important thing.

I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.

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

Internal protectionism in Europe would be deadly, really a disaster for European economies.

My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.

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.

Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.

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 euro area must not be treated as an 'opt out' from the European Union.

The Eurogroup decisions are always taken unanimously.

He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.

It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.

That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.

That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.

That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.

Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.

Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.