I don't think in national categories. For me it [policy] is about concepts and substance.

When the going gets tough, you have to lie.

When it becomes serious, you have to lie.

I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates.

I believe neither the French nor the Dutch really rejected the constitutional treaty.

I notice with a certain sense of regret that far too many Europeans are returning to a regional and national mindset.

Decisions can only be reached in Europe if France and Germany agree.

It is not acceptable that European Union countries are divided into those who give and those who take.

I am chilled by the realization of how similar circumstances in Europe in 2013 are to those of 100 years ago.

It is not more Europe or less Europe that we need. We need a better Europe.

I am for secret, dark debates.

We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.

The fate of every unusual thing is to be a usual thing quickly!

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

God never tempts any man. That is Satan's business.

But what those critics don't know is that these same assets that excite me in the chase often, once they are acquired, leave me bored.

To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.

In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.

"Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilometers away" or "Last body part finally located".

Once you know about a work of mine you own it. There's no way I can climb inside somebody's head and remove it.

I always work directly from life, partly because I really enjoy having an interaction with the person in front of me but also because I love having a direct response to shape and color.