If the EU and its 25 member states make a clever use of all policy instruments, broadband for all Europeans is certainly not out of reach by 2010.

The principle of equal pay for equal work is written in the EU Treaties since 1957. It is high time that it is put in practice everywhere.

Our policy is to encourage investment and promote freedom for industry to innovate.

I expect Europe's top-level domain, .eu, to become similarly as important as dot-com.

It's unacceptable that consumers are punished on their telephone bill simply for crossing a border.

The decision on the right balance between competition and investment can no longer be solely a national issue.

If we use our policy instruments wisely with regard to broadband, we can do some very practical things to make 'growth and jobs' a reality in the less-developed and rural regions of Europe, too.

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

Girls are always complaining that they can never meet a nice guy. Nice guys are everywhere. The problem isn’t that there aren't any nice guys, the problem is that all of the nice guys are ugly.

Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.

If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts?

You must never be afraid to go there.

I really believe action will always be there and will never disappear.

Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up.

I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before you every day, in every sentence.

I would rather live in a country where children are protected and their predators prosecuted, and even (which in Hollywood is evidently not always the same thing) disapproved of.

I speak of knowledge, sir, which is not the bed-equal of learning ... I speak of what comes from learning. I speak of understanding.