Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.

The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.

No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.

Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for sterile partisan recriminations. It is time to re-establish a climate of calmness and mutual respect.

It's not just we Italians who are caught up in the difficulty.

We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.

It is a responsibility we perceive from the entire international community to protect the stability of the single currency as well as the European frame work.

If the constitutional process is not brought to a successful conclusion before the European elections, then the whole process might run out of steam.

The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points.

It takes a lot of effort to win back credibility after having lost it so heavily.

When two lovers discover a language of their own.

Let your light shine from the inside out.

But I hasten to finish my story. Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand.

I am responsible only to God and history.

The indecisiveness and ambivalence so devastatingly described by both of Obama's previous secretaries of defense, Leon Panetta and Bob Gates, are already beginning to characterize the Syria campaign.

Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.

True visionaries are never lukewarm.

I made a mistake. I should've had two accounts, one for personal and one for office. And I didn't, and I take responsibility for that.

Pastors spend a good bit of time helping people with their sin. Who helps them with their sin?

If we get the good that belongs to us here and now, we must extract the sweetness of each passing minute while it is ours. That is the real art of living in the today.