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

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.

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.

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

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

People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.

The "question" is the smallest and greatest unit of discovery.

When an employee, a team, or a company is passionate about their products and services, I am more inclined to bring them my business. Aren’t you?

it is not the oppositions a man face that determine his rise or fall in life but his tenacity to dare to soar and to pursue to higher heights

As actors we try to find different sides of ourselves.

one loves only form, and form only comes into existence when the thing is born.

I never said the way of Christ is easy. Are you prepared to let go of everything He would not approve?

The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

You dream what you're supposed to do

I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers.