Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for sterile partisan recriminations. It is time to re-establish a climate of calmness and mutual respect.

The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.

Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.

No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.

It's not just we Italians who are caught up in the difficulty.

We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.

It is a responsibility we perceive from the entire international community to protect the stability of the single currency as well as the European frame work.

If the constitutional process is not brought to a successful conclusion before the European elections, then the whole process might run out of steam.

The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points.

It takes a lot of effort to win back credibility after having lost it so heavily.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.

Freedom is the supreme good; freedom from self imposed limitation.

I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.

The world is full of contradiction.

Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself 'Pro-Life.'

Life does not need to be changed. Only your intent and actions do.

We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about.