If we use our policy instruments wisely with regard to broadband, we can do some very practical things to make 'growth and jobs' a reality in the less-developed and rural regions of Europe, too.

The principle of equal pay for equal work is written in the EU Treaties since 1957. It is high time that it is put in practice everywhere.

Our policy is to encourage investment and promote freedom for industry to innovate.

I expect Europe's top-level domain, .eu, to become similarly as important as dot-com.

It's unacceptable that consumers are punished on their telephone bill simply for crossing a border.

The decision on the right balance between competition and investment can no longer be solely a national issue.

If the EU and its 25 member states make a clever use of all policy instruments, broadband for all Europeans is certainly not out of reach by 2010.

The only thing of value on this earth is that each of us is an individual and not a cog in a machine. No man is better than another because of circumstance or fortune, but each important to his own.

I've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke.

Why should I trust you? We haven't drunk from the same bowl of soup.

Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.

To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.

You don't need anybody to tell you what is right or wrong. What you need, perhaps, is someone to show you how to come to those understandings.

If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.

I don't want realism. I want magic!

I'm a girl from Queens. I've never gone, 'What am I doing today? Oh, I'm gonna grab a gun and learn how to use it.'