Maybe it is the last chance for Europe to influence standards for world trade. Next it will be between the US and the Asia-Pacific region.

In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.

Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.

We need a greening of globalisation.

Real life is happening outside and not in front of a computer.

The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense.

Iran is the only country in the world that's threatening to erase another country from the map as part of a collective genocide.

What could become a danger to world peace is Iran's nuclear program and the country's open threat to annihilate Israel.

I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as well.

I'm hearing different things, but there is concern that stable Germany is no longer quite so stable.

Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe.

Never complain, pray for strength to overcome the difficulty.

FEMA has lost its focus, and Floridians know first-hand of the agency's shortcomings, .. Natural disaster preparedness and response programs have become trapped in a homeland security bureaucracy.

It was a curious feeling, that something could be so close and so distant at the same time.

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.

I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof.

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

When my money starts coming in and I'm blessed to see an eye doctor every week, twice a week, I'm going to do it.

There weren't paparazzi standing outside. There weren't all these photographers. People really didn't know what fashion was and what was happening in the tents.