If we do not resolve the euro crisis, we will all pay the price. And if we do resolve it, we will all benefit, particularly German taxpayers and savers.

Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. And believe me, it will be enough.

Productivity growth is the only possible way to achieve prosperity.

There is no better protection against the euro crisis than successful structural reforms in southern Europe.

Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in the euro area - and our independence.

I trust the people who are working with me. I delegate.

In Latin you say: "Repetita iuvant - to repeat is beneficial". The fewer changes made in a country, the more often I repeat my messages. And it works.

Interest rates do not have to be identical across the whole euro area, but it is unacceptable if major differences arise from broken capital markets or concern about a euro area break-up.

A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.

When God forgives, there is an immediate andcomplete change in relationship. Instead of hostility, there is love and acceptance. Instead of enmity, there is friendship.

He who mocked and laughed at correction should blame nobody for his shame and doom.

Socrates indeed when he was asked of what country he called himself said "Of the world" for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

I'm happy that I'm at a moment where I'm not standing here going what do I do next?

I want the real deal whatever that means and whatever it takes to get there so I've been exploring.

In many, many ways... Hufflepuff is my favorite house.

I am an American aquarium drinker.

Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.

We civilians defend our own right to free speech. The military in Iraq does not defend our right to free speech.