I never like to say that I 'believe' anything. There are no ideas worth believing.

National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.

Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It [Great Britain] is the country with the worst food after Finland.

I am logically in favour of a referendum. It would be the only legitimate way.

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.

As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.

If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.

One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.

If you can't finish you can't succeed. You have to become a finisher.

If you are open to change and welcome surprise, you know the secret of creativity and the secret of life.

It is so good that you can love someone for how long you want and no one can arrest you for that crime.

... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

Russia has never been an aggressor. Russia has always been a country contributing to global stability and security. A country heavily involved in combating terror.

True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.

In reality, I never want to grow up.

You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen.

Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.