The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years.

We will compromise and compromise and compromise but we will never be compromised.

If the British think they can simply detach from the continent and sail towards the USA or China, then they are mistaken.

Fences and borders are a sign of weakness.

Every sensible banker understands that Greece should not have received any more money: a bankrupt state that can never be expected to repay loans is not a good debtor.

I'm the finance minister of a bankrupt country!

Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire.

Nothing is more boring than talking to people who share my opinion anyway.

I don't believe a Brexit will hurt the City of London as one of the largest financial centers in the world.

The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why I am launching a cross-border movement for more democracy.

When people believe that what you believe is what they believe, they turn you into a belief.

Count me in, Kat." He squeezed her tighter. "You should always count me in." - W. W. Hale the Fifth

As one would expect, the Pope’s schedule is quite disciplined—he wakes up at four o’clock each morning and runs on the treadmill for an hour. I’m totally kidding. Nobody’s knees have time for that.

I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless.

It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, 'Don't play like me, play like you.'

A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.

The most important people at Liverpool Football Club are the people who want to be here.

I work every day. I was flying the other day. and I was like, where am I flying? I have no idea, I work so much.