That's where my job comes in. Getting the E.U. and U.S. to agree.

Proliferation of nuclear weapons to terrorist organisations is far more dangerous than proliferation of nuclear weapons to states, even states like North Korea.

European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.

The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.

The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined.

Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.

The time horizon may be too long for sole reliance on market solutions - but perhaps the inventiveness of the financial services industry will prove me wrong that point!

But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level.

It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs.

The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and analyze intelligence.

If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow.

If only they could live in the twilight of their dreams, in the tiny moment before the harsh light of reality found them, perhaps they could be happy.

The Magical Negro rested his red cane on his shoulder and leisurely strolled into the forest to see if he could find him some hobbits, castles, dragons, princesses, and all that other shit.

Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns!

Digital publishing allows an author a new platform for which the words of one heart can be shared with all souls of the world.

But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.

My parents wanted me to work in a bank or as an accountant.

[S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior.

You would think that as you get older you would be more disciplined. As I get older I get less disciplined. I just play around!

The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?

Outside of football and training, I am somewhat of a homebody. Love hangin' out with my siblings and close friends.