I believe the people should have the opportunity to have a greater influence on politics with their ideas. We need a new impulse for renewal.

Referendums have always posed a threat when it comes to EU policy, because EU policy is complicated. They're an opportunity for those from all political camps who like to oversimplify things.

The EU is an unique project that replaced war with peace, hate with solidarity. Overwhelming emotion for awarding of Nobel prize to EU

For many people, politics in Brussels and Strasbourg might as well be happening on another planet.

But if you constantly insist only on your own interpretation, it isn't long before it seems patronizing.

I'm not a populist. But I try to present complicated issues in such a way that people know where I stand.

Before we talk about further accessions, we have to consolidate the European Union internally. People are increasingly losing faith in the EU's effectiveness.

I am a man of parliament, a man of the people. I am not a representative of the executives.

A joint European army is a very far-reaching proposal and it would be difficult to implement. Such initiatives are nevertheless needed.

The problem with us EU politicians is that we approach everything with cool rationality, and then wonder why we don't win people over emotionally.

I believe that the majority of people in Europe want to demonstrate solidarity with the refugees.

Honesty is too strong a drink to be unwatered all the time

Evening came, a paw, to the gray hut by the river.

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

You are so much more, than your orientation, you know it and I know it.

The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might.

In the deep space of the sea I have found my moon

But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.

Problems almost always create opportunities - to learn, grow and improve.

It is not that we don't know the right answers, it is just that we don't ask the right questions.

What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?