Timothy Garton Ash Quotes
Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time.
To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.
The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.
Europe is a woman, now middle-aged, who has already had a number of heart attacks and is currently experiencing the biggest health crisis of her life, but one that need not be fatal.
There is already a generation of European graduates who feel they have been robbed of the better future they were led to expect. They are members of a new class: the precariat.
The Eurozone has clearly gone spectacularly wrong, pulling down all the continental economies.
Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.
A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.
But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.
Every step that produces a single job for a currently unemployed European should be taken. Every centimetre of red tape that puts someone out of work must be torn up.
Well, that's the way democracy works. We have to build this Europe with the material we have at our disposal. And this material is national democracy.
America should do a reverse Columbus. The world no longer needs to discover America; but America urgently needs to discover the world's view of America.
Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes.
America is divided by a great argument about itself. Europe is divided by a great argument about America.
The main problem with American power is not that it is American... No, the main problem with American power is the power itself. It would be dangerous even for an archangel to wield so much power.
I have a dreadful feeling in my bones that future historians may write of the May 2014 elections: "This was the wake-up call from which Europe failed to wake up."
America is replicated at every level of British life, from the taxi driver to the prime minister.
