Take the military option off the table - we have already seen it doesn't work.

We made a decision that monetary policy will be made by an independent European Central Bank.

We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.

There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets.

The euro is a sickly premature infant, the result of an over-hasty monetary union.

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

Any degree of unemployment worries me.

We want to change the way we help unemployed people find jobs. We want to be faster and more goal oriented.

We really believe our national interests are identical with European interests.

Our future begins on January 1 1999. The euro is Europe's key to the 21st century. The era of solo national fiscal and economic policy is over.

A market that's as open as possible is the precondition for a successful economy, and a successful economy is the precondition to being able to pay for social security.

If you don't have to lie, you don't have to remember anything. You can just go. That's really where I'm at. It's just making it up as I go along.

The world stands out on either side, No wider than the heart is wide.

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Love's very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.

More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.

The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops

Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization.

O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer!