Quotes and Sayings about Turkey

We will never declare a ceasefire. We are not worried about any sanctions.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (as President of Turkey) - about war in North-Syria

2019 Syria

I am very, very proud I am also Turkish and both of my parents are from Turkey. I was born in Germany and grew up there. By playing football, I learned my different cultures, and that is an advantage if you grow up as a person. You get a different view on certain things. I am very, very thankful I was able to pick the best from many cultures.

Mesut Özil

Every country needs a strong leader in order to progress.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Turkey - and that's practically the same thing.

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You mention "Tayfun" and the Greek becomes nervous.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan - December 2022, on Turkish claims on Greek islands

I can't say we had a good start with Mr. Biden.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan - September 2021

To say that the people are the sovereignty of the state is a big lie. Only Allah can be the sovereign.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Islam

There is a trouble called Twitter, the finest lies are here. Nowadays, social media is actually the headache of societies.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan - June 2, 2013

X / Twitter Social Media

I consider abortion to be murder. No-one should have the right to allow this to happen.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan - June 1, 2012

Abortion

A woman who rejects motherhood, who refrains from being around the house, however successful her working life is, is deficient, is incomplete.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (as President of Turkey) - Al Jazeera (6. Juni 2016)

No one is above the law, everybody ought to be held accountable.

Pete Buttigieg

Law 2019

It is inevitable that people around the world - including from America and China - will have different viewpoints over different issues. It is not the role of the NBA to adjudicate those differences. However, the NBA will not put itself in a position of regulating what players, employees and team owners say or will not say on these issues.

Adam Silver (as NBA Commissioner) - October 2019

2019 China

This week, the President has admitted to asking the President of Ukraine to take actions which would benefit him politically. The actions of the Trump presidency revealed the dishonorable fact of the President's betrayal of his oath of office, betrayal of our national security and betrayal of the integrity of our elections. Today, I am announcing the House of Representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry.

Nancy Pelosi (as Speaker of the US House of Representatives) - September 2019

2019

For more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear. How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you're doing enough, when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight.

Greta Thunberg (Climate activist) - September 2019, Rede beim UN Klimagipfel

2019 Conservation & Environment Protection

If the threat is jihadism - and it is - and the threat is the destruction of Syria so that all of these refugees are swamping into Europe and changing the whole character and politics of Europe, this is the time to unite to find a way out.

John F. Kerry

Syria

There's an agreement that Syria should be a unified country, united; that it needs to be secular; that ISIL needs to be taken on; and that there needs to be a managed transition, but there is a difference obviously in what that means and what that outcome may or may not be.

John F. Kerry

Syria

The revolutions of the Arab Spring happened because people realized they were the power.

Mohammed Morsi

Revolution 2011 Egypt Saudi Arabia Syria

Events keep happening that seem inexplicable and out of control. Donald Trump, Brexit, the War in Syria, the endless migrant crisis, random bomb attacks.

Adam Curtis

Donald Trump 2016 Brexit Syria

I've played for Real Madrid, where the pressure is so huge because you have to go and really win absolutely every game.

Mesut Özil

Real Madrid

I am the sort of player that likes to create goals. I think a lot of my team-mates know me as a player who is not selfish.

Mesut Özil

I pray almost every day, and you can see that I pray on the pitch. I pray in the dressing room. That is just part of my life.

Mesut Özil - Der Tagesspiegel, 14.10.2009

Praying

I spent more time in Spane than in Turkey - does that make me a German-Turkish Spaniard or a Spanisch-German Turk? Why do we always think in borders? I want to be a footballer - football is international and not about where people come from.

Mesut Özil - 22.06.2012, Interview FAZ

Tolerance Quotes about Football/Soccer

If you're a homeless, alcoholic Scott and you had tourettes... how would they ever know?

Jimmy Carr

Scotland

I'm fiercely proud to be Scottish.

Ewan McGregor

Scotland

Canada also helped in two world wars and gave the world Neil Young, William Shatner, Leonard Cohen, Pamela Anderson, one quarter of Barney Stinson, instant mashed potatoes and best of all - you.

Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother - Season 9 Episode 12

William Shatner Leonard Cohen Pamela Anderson Neil Young Canada

Look, if Michael Jordan's healthy, you don't let Scottie Pippen run the offense. Oh, you're from Canada, right. If Wayne Gretzky's healthy, you don't let François... what I'm saying is: hockey is stupid and I'm point guy!

Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother - Season 8 Episode 23

Michael Jordan Wayne Gretzky Scottie Pippen Canada Hockey

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings.

Nelson Mandela

USA

This is America. Anyone can eat what they want, as long as they eat too much.

Homer Simpson in The Simpsons - Season 24 Episode 5

USA Food

The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and by Shakespeare. Neither knew chocolate. The Swiss are known for nonviolence. They are also known for superb chocolate.

Sandra Boynton

Chocolate Griechenland Switzerland

Greece... the most recent Greek Tragedy.

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)

Griechenland

Life is too short to learn German.

Richard Porson (britischer klassischer Philologe) - 25.12.1759 - 25.09.1808

Germany

The Germans have six months of winter and six months of no summer.

Napoléon Bonaparte

Summer Germany Winter

They say God invented whiskey to stop the Irish from rulin' the world.

Irish in Red Dead Redemption

Ireland Whiskey St. Patrick's Day

Here's to good Irish friends - never above you, never below you, always beside you!

Ireland Toasts St. Patrick's Day

Australia... home of every animal that seems like it should already be extinct.

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)

Australia

In order to get cheap accommodation in Australia, we like foreign people to do manual labour for us. Helping feed the cows is very important, they are the future of McDonald's.

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Australia McDonald's

People moving to Norway has made Norway richer, economically, but also our culture has become more rich in many ways.

Jens Stoltenberg

Norway

November always seems to me the Norway of the year.

Emily Dickinson

Norway November

You need to find yourself a nice French boyfriend. That's the best way to learn the language. In bed.

Antoine Lambert in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 2

France Bed

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

Norman Schwarzkopf

France Hunting

We need to stop the Islamisation of the Netherlands.

Geert Wilders - Februar 2008

Netherlands

There are only two things I can't stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other people's cultures... and the Dutch.

Nigel Powers in Austin Powers - Goldmember

Funny Quotes Netherlands

In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

Calo in The Godfather - Teil 1

Italy Sicily

In Italy, we have a saying, "Love rules without rules."

Lino in From Scratch - Season 1 Episode 1

Italy

Denmark... also known as "wrong Norway", "different Sweden" and "that's actually not Finland".

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)

Denmark

The minimum wage in Denmark is about twice that of the United States, and people who are totally out of the labor market or unable to care for themselves have a basic income guarantee of about $100 per day.

Bernie Sanders

Denmark

Becky Feder: "Daddy! Where is it taking them?"
Marcus Higgins: "Hell."
Lenny Feder: "Higgins. Don't say that."
Marcus Higgins: "Oh I'm sorry. Not Hell... Mexico."

Marcus Higgins in Grown Ups

Mexico

A tortilla is either corn or wheat. But a corn tortilla folded and filled is a taco, whereas a filled wheat tortilla is a burrito. Deep fry a burrito, it's a chimichanga. Toast a tortilla, it's a tostada. Roll it, it's an enchilada.

Emma in One Day

Mexico

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