Donald Tusk Quotes

I may be from the east but I am not a beast.

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.

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.

If the UK government sticks to its decision to leave, Brexit will become a reality - with all its negative consequences - in March next year. Unless there is a change of heart among our British friends. Wasn't it David Davis himself who said 'if a democracy cannot change its mind, it ceases to be a democracy'. We, here on the continent, haven't had a change of heart. Our hearts are still open to you.

EU27 is not working on 'no-deal' scenario.

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

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.

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

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.

The claims, increasingly taking the form of threats that no agreement will be good for the UK, and bad for the EU, need to be addressed. I want to be clear that a 'no deal scenario' would be bad for everyone, but above all for the UK, because it would leave a number of issues unresolved.

Tragic paradox that the subject of #NiceAttack was the people celebrating liberty, equality and fraternity.

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].

As a historian I fear Brexit could be the beginning of the destruction of not only the EU but also Western political civilisation in its entirety.

To defend [my vision of Europe] does not mean to lecture anyone. The British citizens will make this decision themselves and they do not need any whisperers, especially from Brussels. I understand this very well. But when I hear the EU being compared to the plans and projects of Adolf Hitler I cannot remain silent. Such absurd arguments should be completely ignored if they hadn't been formulated by one of the most influential politicians of the ruling party.