I am glad that Angela Merkel is the German Chancellor, as she tries to combine a sense of responsibility with morality and values. Because this is the essence of Europe.

What we have to do is to definitively remove the last vestiges of power from those who treat terms such as liberal democracy, free markets and Europe with suspicion.

I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle.

We must go beyond being reactive and defensive. As Europeans we must regain our self-confidence and realize our own strengths.

Over the years, the European Union and the United States have worked together to ensure peace and prosperity for our citizens and for people around the world.

My Kashubian family, like the Jews, are people who were born and live in border areas and were suspected by the Nazis and by the Communists of being disloyal.

We should remind our American friends of their own motto: United we stand. Divided, we fall.

I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.

Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.

The strategic partnership between the European Union and the United States is rooted in our shared values of freedom, human rights, democracy and a belief in the market economy.

My government is in no sense anti-Russian.

Don't let yourself get yourself down

When you are watching the universe, you are watching yourself! Wherever you visit in the universe, you visit yourself!

You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage.

Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths.

If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons.

Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.

No! no arresting the vast wheel of time, That round and round still turns with onward might, Stern, dragging thousands to the dreaded night Of an unknown hereafter.

I suppose a child's first obligation is to become a stranger to his parents.

I know kids are supposed to go through these awkward stages, but I just never even thought about that. I was too busy worrying about getting my education while I was working.

You substitute certain things from your own personal life to get you to that mental place and that emotional state. At that time [Brian Robbins] went for the home run, the grand slam [in "Hardball"].