Italy needed structural reforms to become more competitive.

I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US.

The two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption.

In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budgetary sphere.

If the euro becomes a factor promoting Europe's drifting apart, then the foundation of the European project is destroyed.

There is no government in Europe where ministers go through that kind of confirmation process, which in fact is modeled on the way the U.S. cabinet members are confirmed.

My aspiration is not to be loved. It is that my government be respected and credible.

I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities.

I know that speaking with parties, which I do, but not very often, is seen by many as a contamination.

It is very unusual for a country to ask guys who are not politicians to come and run the country.

I believe that in Europe, we have a collective leadership.

Our lips meet and he playfully bites me.” —Sofia Herrera (Total Abandonment, Unbearable Passion, #4)

Pretending is one of our greatest pleasures. But you have to know you're pretending.

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.

In all religions, we make a choice about what we emphasize, and I choose to come down on the side of a loving God.

Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? - Epithalamion

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

If you understand something, you understand that it is obvious.

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

The Olympic Snatch is gymnastics with a bar

We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.