For my generation, the monetary union has always been about forging peace.

When the going gets tough, you have to lie.

When it becomes serious, you have to lie.

I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates.

I believe neither the French nor the Dutch really rejected the constitutional treaty.

I notice with a certain sense of regret that far too many Europeans are returning to a regional and national mindset.

Decisions can only be reached in Europe if France and Germany agree.

It is not acceptable that European Union countries are divided into those who give and those who take.

I am chilled by the realization of how similar circumstances in Europe in 2013 are to those of 100 years ago.

It is not more Europe or less Europe that we need. We need a better Europe.

I am for secret, dark debates.

A live broke man is 'luckier' than a dead rich man.

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.

Why can't everything be as easy as walking into H&M and putting a week's worth of clothes on a credit card?

What use is it for me to force my nature? / For my nature shall always remain / What it is and conquer what belongs to it, / However men may narrow its path.

Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God

Zach had rushed down to rescue me without remembering to put a shirt on...Maybe I had died and gone to heaven.

Love ans desire aren't the same

If I'm President of the United States, when I'm President of the United States, we will stand with Israel.