Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.
Source: Speech, 23 Nov 1981, Bonn, Germany.
-- Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, (Dec 19 1906-1982), Russian political leader; He was leader of the Soviet Union and head of the Soviet Communist Party, 1964-1982.