The EU must take on new responsibilities. And these new responsibilities call for intensifying the integration process.

I am not a newcomer, you know, so I want to be judged for what I did when I was prime minister last time in Italy and president of the European Commission for more than five years.

We must now face the difficult task of moving towards a single economy, a single political entity .. For the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire we have the opportunity to unite Europe.

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.

Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power - not just a trading bloc, but a political entity?

I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta.

Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S.

Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world, and enlargement as well.

We have to give ourselves a constitution which marks the birth of Europe as a political entity.

But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe.

There are terrible living conditions and unhappiness, (even) where everybody is Italian.

Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing...

Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find'…never were any truer words spoken.

If I have done anything, even a little, to help small children enjoy honest, simple pleasures, I have done a bit of good.

I desire to know you. Every breath of your heart, every fleeting look on your face, the rhythm of your joys, and the melancholy of your sorrows.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

You're only as good as your record collection.

Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to work.

African American writers and artists, by the very nature of what they do, will actually enhance or bring together people in a way that might be very, very healthy.

My ideal reader is me. And yes, my ideal reader comes with me and is forgiving.

A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.