Fences and borders are a sign of weakness.

We will compromise and compromise and compromise but we will never be compromised.

If the British think they can simply detach from the continent and sail towards the USA or China, then they are mistaken.

Every sensible banker understands that Greece should not have received any more money: a bankrupt state that can never be expected to repay loans is not a good debtor.

I'm the finance minister of a bankrupt country!

Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire.

Nothing is more boring than talking to people who share my opinion anyway.

I don't believe a Brexit will hurt the City of London as one of the largest financial centers in the world.

The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why I am launching a cross-border movement for more democracy.

The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years.

A man dies as often as he loses his friends.

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.

Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.

The movie industry had it better in the '30s and '40s, in terms of gender equality, than it does now, both in payment and in job ratios. It's ludicrous. Are we in the modern world, or what?

I don't know why you should be proud of something. It doesn't make you any better or worse. You are what you are.

You're sick. Sick and evil and weird.

Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough.

Honour travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast.