Michael Mann Quotes (12 Quotes)

The EU has made an extremely bold offer on agriculture. It's ridiculous to claim this isn't a serious offer. We need the other countries also to show a willingness to move this isn't a one-way street.

We will of course do all we can to respect our international obligations.

Our farm subsidies are moving in the right direction and becoming much more trade friendly, while U.S. is moving in wrong direction, with more trade-distorting aid. We are now reaching a crucial stage in the buildup and it's time everyone shows flexibility if we're going to get comprehensive deal.

The violation occurred on the day of the inspection, so the cleanup will not alter the notice of violation.

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

We've been negotiating this thing for 20 years so it was about time that we had an agreement. We're going to clink glasses on this.

The Russians are amongst our top-spending and most important customers. It's important to make them feel welcome.

We don't know how many countries are going to put forward measures and we don't know how much those measures will cost. We didn't want to be too prescriptive, we wanted to leave it to the member states to adapt the measures to the national situation.

We don't think anyone should be restricting exports of poultry because poultry is perfectly safe. There is no bird flu on poultry farms in Europe except on one turkey farm in France, where all the birds have been slaughtered.

We decided (Tuesday) to reject Greece's application for a 2-year ban. We didn't get any evidence from Greece that the variety would be either an environmental or a health risk.

And the more input, the more we hear from people, the better the plan is going to be and the better it's going to reflect what the community wants and what it can handle.

And so, the challenging thing, ... is that you're going to have to change things in drama, of course. Either that, or you're doing a phone book. But at the same time, they have to mean the same thing. ... You can't take creative license as a license to be untruthful.