Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.

Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It [Great Britain] is the country with the worst food after Finland.

I am logically in favour of a referendum. It would be the only legitimate way.

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.

As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.

If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.

One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.

The freer a society is, the more it leaves the family alone.

There's no more secure investment in the next generation than your prayers for your children!

Life happens, whether you're in it or not, but death doesn't give you a choice.

Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Most of the reason I work out now is not for the external - it's for how I feel. I find working out gives me more energy. I started eight days after he was born.

I want to make a positive point of Ikea. It makes income inequality a minor distraction.

Is this a private fight, or can anyone join?

No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.

I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.