Russia and Ukraine are candidates for the entry to the WTO and their dispute would be easy to understand and tackle if they are both members of this organization.

Globalization is incredibly efficient but also so far incredibly unjust.

Today we can be sure we are heading into the right direction. We managed to put the round back on track, after a long hibernation. But we are not there yet.

It is not good news, but we have to face reality.

The love to know is the passion for reading.

Letting go isn’t about having the courage to release the past

We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we take it what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end.

All wealth is the product of labor.

I drive the same car that I've driven since I was 16. That's who I am.

Would you like a whiskey?' I say. 'I've got some.' (That's original. I bet nobody's ever thought of that way of bridging the gap before.)

I am not an animal! I am a human being! I…am…a man!

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

Whatever insults my state insults me.

The bankers just got a good cussing by everybody for loaning too much money. Well, they got some awful nice buildings. So when a banker fails, he fails in splendor.