The U.S. has dropped its role as the vanguard of free trade, they are looking for a new partner: the EU.

Building walls does not make any country great again.

It is just as important that we enter into a dialogue with China.

It is time for the Chinese to make good on their word.

When it comes to disputes before the World Trade Organization, we generally win.

Trump's election has opened many people's eyes in Europe to how valuable the European Union and international cooperation are.

The American people have elected their president and my vote doesn't count in the U.S.

Germany and other countries have protested to the U.S. We have to make it clear again and again that millions of jobs in the U.S. depend on trade with the EU.

Love is a luxury.""No. Love is an element."An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.

Satan perverts everything good by mimicking and mocking the real thing.

Addiction is just a little hiding place where sensitive people can go so we don't have to be touched by love or pain.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

I used to wash up the dishes as C3PO. And it's very hard to put cups away when this joint doesn't bend! Mum was very tolerant.

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.

M F K Fisher is the dowager queen of writers on browsing and slicing.

Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp.

For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.

Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.