I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta.

I am not a newcomer, you know, so I want to be judged for what I did when I was prime minister last time in Italy and president of the European Commission for more than five years.

We must now face the difficult task of moving towards a single economy, a single political entity .. For the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire we have the opportunity to unite Europe.

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.

Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power - not just a trading bloc, but a political entity?

The EU must take on new responsibilities. And these new responsibilities call for intensifying the integration process.

Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S.

Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world, and enlargement as well.

We have to give ourselves a constitution which marks the birth of Europe as a political entity.

But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe.

There are terrible living conditions and unhappiness, (even) where everybody is Italian.

I've done so many bad things in my life but the stars always forgave me.

The continual mismanagement is what keeps us from enjoying the full pallet of emotions that truly enrich us. .

A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.

It is not enough just to open the door to the rooms of power. We have to get inside and rearrange the furniture!

As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals.

It's an objective fact, that if you want to solve some of these huge, kind of bigger problems of extreme poverty, you have to include the women. They're the ones who will get it done.

If not for reverence, if not for wonder, if not for love, why have we come here?

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.

After playing Ballybunion for the first time, a man would think that the game of golf originated here.

Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.