In the darkest days of European history, America stood close by us and today we stand close by America. Nothing will ever be the same.

I am not a newcomer, you know, so I want to be judged for what I did when I was prime minister last time in Italy and president of the European Commission for more than five years.

We must now face the difficult task of moving towards a single economy, a single political entity .. For the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire we have the opportunity to unite Europe.

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.

Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power - not just a trading bloc, but a political entity?

I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta.

The EU must take on new responsibilities. And these new responsibilities call for intensifying the integration process.

Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S.

Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world, and enlargement as well.

We have to give ourselves a constitution which marks the birth of Europe as a political entity.

But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe.

Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.

I understand a fury in your wordsBut not your words.

Black skin was filled with so many barriers, so many restrictions, so many.

When the old plum tree blooms, the entire world blooms.

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

I was the owner of my own darkness.

All the fear has left me now, I'm not frightened anymore. It's my heart that pounds beneath my flesh, it's my mouth that pushes out this breath.

Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.

Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.