It makes more sense to find out where the middle- and long-term common ground lies.

We made a decision that monetary policy will be made by an independent European Central Bank.

We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.

There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets.

The euro is a sickly premature infant, the result of an over-hasty monetary union.

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

Take the military option off the table - we have already seen it doesn't work.

Any degree of unemployment worries me.

We want to change the way we help unemployed people find jobs. We want to be faster and more goal oriented.

We really believe our national interests are identical with European interests.

Our future begins on January 1 1999. The euro is Europe's key to the 21st century. The era of solo national fiscal and economic policy is over.

A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough

You can use songs, scriptures and godly pictures to chart your thought-course in the right direction.

We'd be the safest country in the world if the world knew we didn't have a gun. Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one has a gun.

We think it’s weak to surrender, but sometimes it’s the bravest thing we can possibly do.

Now I know why tigers eat their young.

I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.

Peace of mind is much better than giving them a piece of your mind.

What humor allows you to do is to let the past go with less pain. It's a healing element. It releases some of the pain from the shotgun wound.

Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind.

The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact.