Basically, Herman van Rompuy wants the European Union to become a debt union, which may be acceptable to some of the southern countries who are effectively bust. To the northern countries, it is not.

Any normal and fair-minded person would have a perfect right to be concerned if a group of Romanian people suddenly moved in next door.

We may have made one of the biggest and most stupid collective mistakes in history by getting so worried about global warming.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

The euro Titanic has now hit the iceberg - and there simply aren't enough lifeboats to go round.

I am married to a girl from Hamburg, so no one need tell me about the dangers of living in a German dominated household.

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.

There are two completely different Britains. There's London, and there's the rest of Britain.

It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain.

Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?

It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.

Blossoms shower, and then they go on showering—they never stop. The blossoms that showered for Buddha are still showering. The blossoms that showered for Subhuti are still showering.

Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine.

Love wants to enjoy in other ways the human being whom it has enjoyed in bed; it looks forward to having breakfast.

When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.

A sure sign of a crisis is the prevalence of cranks. It is characteristic of a crisis in theory that cranks get a hearing from the public which orthodoxy is failing to satisfy.

I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think.

Not only is he my broadcast partner, but we travel together so much, he's become like my best friend.

love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.

Under the gold standard America had no major financial panics other than in 1873, 1884, 1890, 1893, 1907, 1930, 1931, 1932, and 1933.

The enemy are only 50 yards from us. We are heavily outnumbered. We are under devastating fire. I shall not withdraw an inch but will fight to our last man and our last round.