Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don't want dominance.

We made a decision that monetary policy will be made by an independent European Central Bank.

We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.

There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets.

The euro is a sickly premature infant, the result of an over-hasty monetary union.

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

Take the military option off the table - we have already seen it doesn't work.

Any degree of unemployment worries me.

We want to change the way we help unemployed people find jobs. We want to be faster and more goal oriented.

We really believe our national interests are identical with European interests.

Our future begins on January 1 1999. The euro is Europe's key to the 21st century. The era of solo national fiscal and economic policy is over.

My love is for you lives after life, for infinite time even though I will never get you, but my love for you is forever.

The second this interminable wait ended, it would all start to fall away into the past, to become unreal.

Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain though it is—that distinguishes man from all other animals.

As long as my heart's still in it, I'll keep going. If the passion's there, why stop?

Girls are taught to view their bodies as unending projects to work on, whereas boys from a young age, are taught to view their bodies as tools to master their environment

Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.

Entrepreneurs don't finish when we are tired. We finish when we are done.

Silence gives the proper grace to women

Keep this straight in your head: we are not fighting an alien invasion - we're leading a revolution. And today the battle begins.