Top 36 Quotes by Jose Manuel Barroso

The new narrative for Europe should be about the need to have a responsible organisation, the need to be able to defend our interests and promote our values, like human rights.

You see in times of crisis that extremist forces, populist forces, have a better ground to oversimplify things and to manipulate feelings. Feelings of fear.

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

Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.

A new state, if it wants to join the European Union, has to apply to become a member of the European Union like any state.

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

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

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

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

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