Even though effective competition is the best tool to strengthen innovation and competitiveness in Europe, state aid can also play a very useful supporting role.

A coder will be the next rock star.

You can take this as a gentle word of warning, if you like. We are just at the beginning of a period of more intensive antitrust enforcement.

I can only encourage everyone to take a close look at their practices. Prevention is always better than cure.

I am determined to use competition law to protect European industry and consumers.

I know a smart business decision when I see one - choosing open standards is | a very smart business decision indeed.

Consolidation in the skiing equipment industry cannot be allowed to lead to higher prices, lower quality or less innovative products.

Deployment of broadband may be hampered by market failures in rural and remote areas. In such cases, well targeted state aid may therefore be appropriate.

The E.U.-U.S. Open Aviation Area agreement therefore envisages the establishment of a broadly similar cooperation framework between the Commission and the Department of Transportation.

Absolutely determined to ensure that Microsoft complies fully with the 2004 anti-trust decision.

If you take society’s definition of knowing oneself, you will become lost in the many translations.

I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me.

Declarations of war have never been a constitutional requirement for military action abroad.

They always throw around this term 'the liberal elite.' And I kept thinking to myself about the Christian right. What's more elite than believing that only you will go to heaven?

You always have to find something to say about the subject and in seven cases out of ten there is nothing to say.

I've always considered myself a feminist, which is such a tough word for people. Some people immediately assume that you're angry or you hate men, which is obviously not true.

God didn't call me to be successful, He called me to be faithful.

Every day, in every moment, you make the choice whether to love and harness the positive force - or not.