JEAN-CLAUDE JUNCKER

It is not acceptable that European Union countries are divided into those who give and those who take.

In 1913 many believed that there would never again be a war in Europe. The great powers of the continent were so closely intertwined economically that the view was widespread that they could no longer afford to have military confrontations.

God understands more about the financial markets than many who write about them.

We do not attract Russian money to Luxembourg with high interest rates.

My main concern is to protect people from detriment.

The Luxembourg financial centre is based on several pillars, we are characterised by the breadth of our product range, we are an active participant in the international credit business.

Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken.

We Europeans do not sit at the table with torturers.

[The EEC is] a Christian club.

I do not wish to sit at the same table with a bunch of torturers.

Being described as a stupid bureaucrat with no link to representative democracy is difficult to take.

The European family may well be anything but perfect. But it is the best thing that we have for bringing the countries of Europe around the same table and for forging compromises so that people here can live in peace, freedom, and prosperity.

From the very beginning, Europe has been not only a success story but also a story of success achieved by learning.

The European Union has decades of experience in overcoming crises and has always emerged stronger after.

This was a continent of divisions, of wars, of conflicts, of divergences, differences... When I am in Asia, in Africa, people admire what we have managed to do. Europe is beautiful seen from other continents.

I believe that if we don't offer legal ways of emigrating to Europe and immigrating within Europe, we will be lost. If those who come - who are, generally speaking, the poor and needy - are no longer able to enter the house of Europe through the front door, they'll keep making their way in through the back windows.

I am against nationalists, but I am very much in favour of patriots.

I am strictly against a European superstate.

No, we should not be afraid of the populists; we should embrace those they are fighting.

We shouldn't persuade people that we can simply conjure up the sun and the moon: at the most, we can deliver a telescope.

If we allow Catalonia - and it is none of our business - to separate, others will do the same. I do not want that.

In a union of equals, there can be no second-class consumers. I will not accept that in some parts of Europe, people are sold food of lower quality than in other countries, despite the packaging and branding being identical.

The populists themselves are dangerous, but they are far more dangerous when the traditional, classic parties adopt their harmful proposals.

The U.K. decided to leave the E.U. - Brexit means Brexit.

Europe must not distance itself from Africa's universal ambitions.