142 Quotes by Jean-Claude Juncker

When it becomes serious, you have to lie.

We all know what to do, but we don’t know how to get re-elected once we have done it.

My friendship with Martin [Schulz], by contrast, is completely different in that it goes far beyond politics.

In politics, there are different categories of friendship. My friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, for example .

Yesterday's shining heroes of Brexit have become the sorrowful heroes of today.

I am in favor of the European institutions being led for the next two-and-a-half years as they have been thus far. We need stability.

Without the Turkey agreement, tens of thousands of refugees would still be stuck in Greece. The Commission presented proposals for securing Europe's external borders early on, but they languished in the Council for months. As you can see, the Commission isn't asleep. Oftentimes it has to wake up the others.

It is always said that Europe is a project of the elite. That's incorrect.

I completely agree with Helmut Kohl. I am not an advocate of the "United States of Europe," nor am I an integration fanatic.