Donald Tusk Quotes

I'm incapable of getting angry with Angela Merkel.

But if we restore the normal role of public television. Not that they say 'Tusk is a genius and Kaczyński is a Jew'. Just saying... Only that there would be normal public television again, people with different views, debates and so on.

It will make it more complicated and costly than today for all of us. This is the essence of Brexit.

Brexit means drifting apart but we don't want to build a wall.

Every family knows that a divorce is traumatic for everyone. Everyone in the EU, but especially the Brits themselves, would lose out economically [if Britain left the EU].

The paradox is that 500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians. We must rely on ourselves, fully aware of our potential and with confidence that we are a global power.

The EU will be able to rise to every scenario as long as we are not divided.

I still have dreams. Politics without dreams – it would be a nightmare.

Bad politicians are elected by good citizens who stay at home.

There is a special place in hell for those who promoted Brexit without even a sketch of a plan of how to carry it out safely.

The UK's decision on Brexit has caused the problem and the UK will have to solve it. Without a solution there will be no withdrawal agreement and no transition.

[<nowiki/>David Cameron told me] he felt really safe, because he thought at the same time that there’s no risk of a referendum, because his coalition partner, the Liberals, would block this idea of a referendum. But then, surprisingly, he won and there was no coalition partner. So paradoxically David Cameron became the real victim of his own victory.

Europe is not old, haggard or barren. Europe is young, dynamic and vital. Our continent remains the best place in the world to live.

There can be no frictionless trade outside of the customs union and the single market. Friction is an inevitable side-effect of Brexit by nature.

No-one will ever tell me that Brexit is a good thing because as I have always said, in fact, Brexit is only about damage control.