The dangerous glorification of the nation state, and the baiting of minorities that goes along with it, releases an anti-democratic energy.

Referendums have always posed a threat when it comes to EU policy, because EU policy is complicated. They're an opportunity for those from all political camps who like to oversimplify things.

The EU is an unique project that replaced war with peace, hate with solidarity. Overwhelming emotion for awarding of Nobel prize to EU

For many people, politics in Brussels and Strasbourg might as well be happening on another planet.

But if you constantly insist only on your own interpretation, it isn't long before it seems patronizing.

I'm not a populist. But I try to present complicated issues in such a way that people know where I stand.

Before we talk about further accessions, we have to consolidate the European Union internally. People are increasingly losing faith in the EU's effectiveness.

I am a man of parliament, a man of the people. I am not a representative of the executives.

A joint European army is a very far-reaching proposal and it would be difficult to implement. Such initiatives are nevertheless needed.

The problem with us EU politicians is that we approach everything with cool rationality, and then wonder why we don't win people over emotionally.

I believe that the majority of people in Europe want to demonstrate solidarity with the refugees.

Hopes are so well constructed, so monstrously dashed!

If I don't understand you, I may be angry at you, all the time. We are not capable of understanding each other, and that is the main source of human suffering.

I am never sure that anythings good enough. Something that is good today will not be good tomorrow.

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.

When preparing for a concert, I do lots of training. I work with a choreographer to create great moves and then I have to keep my voice strong with lessons.

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.

Even the President needs passion.

Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man.