Quotes by Timothy Garton Ash

Timothy Garton Ash

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.

Administration

Democracy

Middle East

America is divided by a great argument about itself. Europe is divided by a great argument about America.

America

Argument

Europe

America is replicated at every level of British life, from the taxi driver to the prime minister.

America

Levels

Prime

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.

America

Needs

Views

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.

Europe

Heart

Numbers

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.

Jobs

Taken

Tape

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

Animal

Cities

Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and heroes, torturers and post-modernists. Subversive of lies, half-truths, myths; of all those “easy speeches that comfort cruel men.

Hero

Lying

Men

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.”

Europe

Feelings

Writing

I love this country, but the union jack leaves me cold.

Country

Heart

Unions

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Elephants

Europe

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Fighting

Forever

Generations

Gone

Graduates

Heart

Hero

Jobs

Keys

Leader

Levels

Liberty

Lying

Mean

Men

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Numbers

Obsession

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Prime

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Quotes by Timothy Garton Ash

Timothy Garton Ash

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.

America is divided by a great argument about itself. Europe is divided by a great argument about America.

America is replicated at every level of British life, from the taxi driver to the prime minister.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and heroes, torturers and post-modernists. Subversive of lies, half-truths, myths; of all those “easy speeches that comfort cruel men.

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.”

I love this country, but the union jack leaves me cold.

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