The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.

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 E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined.

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

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.

each morning we’re born againof yesterday nothing remainswhat’s left began today

Recovery doesn't mean putting your life on hold. Recovery means holding on so you can live your best life.

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.

People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions.

I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that someone needs.

You don't win by just being against things, you only win by being for things and making your message perfectly clear.

The wisdom obtained in the higher states of consciousness is different from that obtained by inference and testimony as it refers to particulars.

Chaos, when left alone, tends to multiply.

People hold on to what they like. They discard what they don't...

He was a man, that he always performed his promises, that he had never said he would return.