In times of upheaval, people wish for nothing more than composure and sincerity.

Referendums have always posed a threat when it comes to EU policy, because EU policy is complicated. They're an opportunity for those from all political camps who like to oversimplify things.

The EU is an unique project that replaced war with peace, hate with solidarity. Overwhelming emotion for awarding of Nobel prize to EU

For many people, politics in Brussels and Strasbourg might as well be happening on another planet.

But if you constantly insist only on your own interpretation, it isn't long before it seems patronizing.

I'm not a populist. But I try to present complicated issues in such a way that people know where I stand.

Before we talk about further accessions, we have to consolidate the European Union internally. People are increasingly losing faith in the EU's effectiveness.

I am a man of parliament, a man of the people. I am not a representative of the executives.

A joint European army is a very far-reaching proposal and it would be difficult to implement. Such initiatives are nevertheless needed.

The problem with us EU politicians is that we approach everything with cool rationality, and then wonder why we don't win people over emotionally.

I believe that the majority of people in Europe want to demonstrate solidarity with the refugees.

Not allowing the mind its freedom to think and find the purpose of life takes away the vision to focus.

Love is a skill you learn.

Everything that happens to us is the result of what we ourselves have thought, said, or done.We alone are responsible for our lives.

I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.

A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to cover anything else.

people do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons.

I love to make stories out of license plates on cars about the initials and the numbers - my mum used to do that with me.

I always say if I weren't a fashion designer, my other dream job is being a rock star!

In Scotland football hooliganism has been met by banning alcohol from grounds but in England this solution has been circumnavigated

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.