Don't expect ambiguities, hesitations or palace intrigues from me.

It is important to show our European partners that Portugal is a governable country.

The savings rate in Italy is high, but the markets do not trust Italy even though it's the third largest economy in the European Union and the eighth in the world.

After the accession to the euro zone, interest rates declined substantially in Portugal.

I was a brilliant student. I always try to be the best.

A president from a partner nation should not make comments on Italian politics.

Integration is the most important asset Europe has, and the key component to European integration is the euro.

A myth, in its original Greek meaning- muthos- is simply that: a story, one which seeks to render life transparent to an intelligible source.

One doesn't love any of the things of Summer as much as one does the things of Spring.

Vivienne Westwood makes such beautifully structured clothes that are especially flattering if you are curvy.

Willowes are weak, yet they bind other wood.

We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

There is an eternal humanity that crosses through all people, and it's more interesting often when it's about struggle - not people with champagne glasses.

If you will not stand with Israel, then I will not stand with you

I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again.

The misconception about Hollywood is that it's a crazy drug and alcohol fueled place. It can be but there's also a huge sober community.