Everything that could produce a clash between the Arab world and the West seemed dangerous to me.

Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow.

Using the right of veto would be shooting the Americans in the back.

In a multipolar world, there must be more powers capable of taking responsibility, the US and Europe must be able to unite to achieve peace in the Middle East.

I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

China protects the Chinese, America protects the Americans, I don't see why Europe should not protect the Europeans.

Nobody can deny there is a rise of Islamic fundamentalism.

Accusations are useless.

The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.

In the last few days, I have been the victim of a campaign of slander and shameful lies, a campaign which has deeply shocked and hurt me. Enough is enough.

Change is not the words you believe, it is the belief others have in you.~bns

All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea.

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love

With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.

We must be authors of the history of our age.

I have no idea what White House statement was issued, but I stand by it 100 percent.

I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.