I look for the consensus because the consensus drives the policy into new places.

I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man.

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

Im not interested in the limelight.

I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.

Am I an ego on legs? No I am not. Do I want to be seen out there all the time saying everything? No, I don't.

Judge me on what I do and I think you will be pleased and proud of me.

We colour the world, Not with the darkness of our pasts, But with the rainbow of our hope.

Life is affected, even controlled by how thoughts are communicated in both words and actions.

Judy shook her head when she saw me the next day, dressed in the same clothes I had worn to work the day before. “We used to call that the walk of shame, ” she said.

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.

I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.

Teach your kids to make deplorable choices and hopefully they'll rebel and make the right ones.

Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

Since humans are by nature tribal, the overall goal is to expand the concept of the tribe to include ALL members of the species, in a global free society.

You can have a strong government and a weak people, or strong people and weak government, but you cannot have both.

It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.