I'm the finance minister of a bankrupt country!

We will compromise and compromise and compromise but we will never be compromised.

If the British think they can simply detach from the continent and sail towards the USA or China, then they are mistaken.

Fences and borders are a sign of weakness.

Every sensible banker understands that Greece should not have received any more money: a bankrupt state that can never be expected to repay loans is not a good debtor.

Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire.

Nothing is more boring than talking to people who share my opinion anyway.

I don't believe a Brexit will hurt the City of London as one of the largest financial centers in the world.

The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why I am launching a cross-border movement for more democracy.

The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years.

We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.

Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right.

That's what's good about life - that you always learn.

I don't think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building.

Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.

There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.

I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.

I don't know how many more times I'll be in New England again. But I leave coach Belichick and those guys with a salute: 'I love you guys. I miss you. I'm out.'

Never apologize on stage. Most people never notice when you make a mistake or if you are having a bad show.

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.