Jean-Claude Juncker

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

“We decide on something, leave it lying around and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.”

“I am determined, as is the Government, to do everything to preserve everything that we have worked for and that we believe in … by using all necessary means to fend off the hostile (bid).”

“The constitutional treaty was an easily understandable treaty. This is a simplified treaty which is very complicated."”

“We all know what to do, we just don’t know how to get re-elected after we’ve done it.”

“Monetary policy is a serious issue. We should discuss this in secret, in the Eurogroup [...] I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious [...] I am for secret, dark debates.”

“I don't think Spain will need any kind of external support.”

“There can be no democratic choice against the European treaties, one cannot exit the euro without leaving the EU.”

“We feel we need a Capital Market Union, Energy Union, Economic and Monetary Union but we also think we need security union”

“Borders are the worst invention ever made by politicians.”

“Thank you, have a nice day. I will now see the president of Azerbaijan, so the nice part of the day is over.”

“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.”