It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs.

Proliferation of nuclear weapons to terrorist organisations is far more dangerous than proliferation of nuclear weapons to states, even states like North Korea.

European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.

The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.

The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined.

Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.

The time horizon may be too long for sole reliance on market solutions - but perhaps the inventiveness of the financial services industry will prove me wrong that point!

But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level.

The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and analyze intelligence.

If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow.

The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free.

I do not know everything. I ought to keep learning.

Leadership is about movement and growth.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.

The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted

Framing effects can be very influential, and to the degree that you can think of a task as close rather than distant, you're more likely to actually get it done.

Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.

The only time I made money was when I licensed my own solo guitar record, which sold maybe seven copies.

I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.