“In Europe the big word is tolerance. Homosexuals are riding high in the media...and in Scotland, you can't believe how strong the homosexuals are.”— Pat Robertson, theguardian.com
“I'm traveling from Europe on my birthday so I've had a birthday for 40 hours.”— Mindy Kaling, twitter.com
“By choosing ‘leave,’ British voters demonstrated an unfortunate short-sightedness about how the world is changing and how hard it will be for any country with global ambitions to go it alone. With Brexit, both the U.K. and Europe are losing a lot more than a partnership. They're losing their best ch…”— Michael Schuman, bloomberg.com
“The varied nations of Europe understood that they'd be much stronger if they forged a common market with shared institutions and even a regional currency, the euro, than if they tried to compete as independent units... As a whole, the EU should in theory wield significant power in pressing Beijing t…”— Michael Schuman, bloomberg.com
“The big mistakes were the adoption of the euro without careful thought about how a single currency would work without a unified government; the disastrous framing of the euro crisis as a morality play brought on by irresponsible southerners; the establishment of free labor mobility among culturally…”— Paul Krugman, krugman.blogs.nytimes.com
“It seems clear that the European project – the whole effort to promote peace and growing political union through economic integration – is in deep, deep trouble.”— Paul Krugman, krugman.blogs.nytimes.com
“The numbing news that Britain has voted to leave the European Union is the worst step backward for Europe -- and for Western civilization -- since the end of World War II.”— Charles Kaiser, edition.cnn.com