France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.

National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.

Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It [Great Britain] is the country with the worst food after Finland.

I am logically in favour of a referendum. It would be the only legitimate way.

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.

As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.

If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.

One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.

A kiss is a flower of love, a sweet song of two hearts, and a memory of eternal desires.

I think if you show up and you work hard and you're straightforward, you can always create your own opportunities. I hope I'm right.

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

Gardening?is one of the most underrated aspects of diplomacy.

A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.

You are better than you think.

Unlike men, women got less sentimental as we aged, I was discovering.

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.