Germany is to be contained from outside and heterogenized from the inside by influx, 'diluted' so to speak.

Transforming the European Union into a single State with one army, one constitution and one foreign policy is the critical challenge of the age

Taking stock of 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' a decade later, the Financial Times concluded that the US won the war, Iran won the peace, and Turkey won the contracts. I can only agree.

I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.

The participation in European elections was always not very exciting. People are very interested in European issues, but they don't see the person who is representing Europe.

What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education.

Let's forget the reunification, let's just shut up and don't talk about that topic for the next 20 years.

There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.

India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.

A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process.

Solutions must be based on compromises.

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.

I am a pilgrim in the world, but at home in my God. In the earth I wander, but in God I dwell in a quiet habitation.

The idea that a big country is going to go out and send troops into some country to take their resources, and then the rest of the world is going to somehow trust us is just a ridiculous notion.

Neutrality is not politics.

All true religion must stand on true morality.

I'm not real impressed with the Star Trek weaponry, I gotta be honest.

Cease speaking of enemies when an achievement can kindle a great light. Solitude will transmit the message better than the murmurs of crowds.

The most popular cartoon of mine is a guy on the phone looking at his appointment book and saying "No, Thursday's out. How about never, is never good for you?"

I don’t like Drake as a person. He’s just fake to me.