Taking stock of 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' a decade later, the Financial Times concluded that the US won the war, Iran won the peace, and Turkey won the contracts. I can only agree.

Transforming the European Union into a single State with one army, one constitution and one foreign policy is the critical challenge of the age

I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Germany is to be contained from outside and heterogenized from the inside by influx, 'diluted' so to speak.

The participation in European elections was always not very exciting. People are very interested in European issues, but they don't see the person who is representing Europe.

What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education.

Let's forget the reunification, let's just shut up and don't talk about that topic for the next 20 years.

There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.

India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.

A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process.

Solutions must be based on compromises.

When your thoughts, choices and actions are in alignment with love as a priority in your life, the streams of love flow naturally in ways that continue to replenish you.

To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury....

This was the first of the sorrows of Turin.

Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.

I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form.

Our business is to be happy.

No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign.

I recommend SILENT SPRING above all other books.

Amateurs study tactics; professionals study logistics.

The west was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.