If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow.

Proliferation of nuclear weapons to terrorist organisations is far more dangerous than proliferation of nuclear weapons to states, even states like North Korea.

European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.

The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.

The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined.

Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.

The time horizon may be too long for sole reliance on market solutions - but perhaps the inventiveness of the financial services industry will prove me wrong that point!

But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level.

It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs.

The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and analyze intelligence.

The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free.

There is always a way.

Don’t quit when you encounter an obstacle. Adapt a new strategy to conquer it.

The true principle to promotion and advancement is generosity.The giving of oneself… your time, talent and substance. Today, I choose to be a giver.

I want you to see that I'm looking. Look at me look at you. I'm cool with that.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

Are your eyelashes like your hair?” “Yes. They’re very beautiful—want to see?” Her lips twitched. “Vanity is a sin,Bluebell.” “When you have it, flaunt it, I say.” -Elena and Illium

I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.

What you can't enforce, do not command.

I always sit in the tail end of a plane, always. You never hear of an plane backing into a mountain.