Leaders
- 1978–1981: Gaston Thorn
- 1981–1985: Willy De Clercq
- 1985–1990: Colette Flesch
- 1990–1995: Willy De Clercq
- 1995–2000: Uffe Ellemann-Jensen
- 2000–2005: Werner Hoyer
- 2005–2011: Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck
- 2011– now: Graham Watson
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“For aesthetics is the mother of ethics.... Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe—not empirically, alas, but only theoretically—that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)
“Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measures by results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)