The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free.

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.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

You'll always be the deepest scar on my heart.

I cry looking at our reality, through slave eyes. I bet they would say our generation has crossed the line.

Socialism and capitalism are not mutually exclusive. They can — and should — be used in tandem. Either alone is death by overdose. Balance.

Drama copies life in there being a sense of waiting, of a promise never fulfilled.

Joy is the will which labors which overcomes obstacles which knows triumph.

Writing is done by someone. It is not, like some mythical goddess, a skill that springs forth, full grown from the genes of inspiration.

Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.

Optimism is the opium of the people.

Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.