Eurobonds are absolutely wrong. In order to bring about common interest rates, you need similar competitiveness levels, similar budget situations. You don't get them by collectivizing debts.

I might bend, but I will NEVER break because it's in my nature as a strong woman.

Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are.

Look forward to the future and look forward to the unknown. Nothing stays the same and people change. One day that hurt and pain will be a distant memory.

Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.

I never underestimated myself. And I never saw anything wrong with ambition.

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

I am thankful for all the hard times I've been through and all the tears I've cried because that has put me as closer to God and made me the strong woman I am today!

Ladies, it is not your education, status or personality that has brought you here but the elegance of God which was still and still working upon you.

Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together.

I am not here for women only, but also for women.

Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.

If you want to impress a lady, respect her, because respect is an impressive act itself

Maybe I am naive about certain things. But I'm glad. I know all I want to know.

The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.

The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.

Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence.

For all things turn to barenness In the dim glass the demons hold The glass of outer weariness Made when God slept in times of old

I hate conservatives, but I really hate liberals.

I do not dwell on dreams I know how soon a dream becomes an expectation How can I have expectations? Look at me, No, Captain, Look at me, Look at me!