John Bruton Quotes

Proliferation of nuclear weapons to terrorist organisations is far more dangerous than proliferation of nuclear weapons to states, even states like North Korea.

European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.

The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.

The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined.

It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs.

But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level.

The time horizon may be too long for sole reliance on market solutions - but perhaps the inventiveness of the financial services industry will prove me wrong that point!

Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.

The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and analyze intelligence.

The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free.

If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow.

U.S. companies rely on the European market for more than half of their global foreign profits.

That's where my job comes in. Getting the E.U. and U.S. to agree.

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.

When the E.U. and the U.S. agree, other countries follow.

The E.U. is the world's fastest growing democratic body.

U.S. companies earn more from their investments in the EU than in the rest of the world combined.

The U.S. - E.U. economic relationship dwarfs America's economic ties with China.

States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.

We in Ireland have not been immune from the bigotry and the indifference which manifested itself in Europe this century

A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence.

Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China.

Non-proliferation will only work if all states are willing to cooperate, and that will only happen if all feel they are being treated fairly.

One cannot have economic growth without security.