I aim to help the Germans and the Europeans successfully travel all the way down the path toward European integration, and I can do this more effectively if I don't commit myself to a party.

I understand very well that politicians always have to bridge the gap until the next election, even if long-term dangers increase as a result. But as an economist, my time horizon is longer.

I take my profession as an economist seriously and feel a commitment to the truth. This is incompatible with having to toe the political party line.

Whatever happens to you, once you have hope you will survive.

A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.

For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indeed he made a downright hell of it.

Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.

I think God's a pretty fair guy.

Britain is a very small country with a very large press.

We don't have the money, because it's been squandered on so many of [Hillary Clinton's] ideas.

The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.

Money equals business which equals power, all of which come from character and trust.

Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.