The euro is a sickly premature infant, the result of an over-hasty monetary union.

We made a decision that monetary policy will be made by an independent European Central Bank.

We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.

There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets.

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

Take the military option off the table - we have already seen it doesn't work.

Any degree of unemployment worries me.

We want to change the way we help unemployed people find jobs. We want to be faster and more goal oriented.

We really believe our national interests are identical with European interests.

Our future begins on January 1 1999. The euro is Europe's key to the 21st century. The era of solo national fiscal and economic policy is over.

A market that's as open as possible is the precondition for a successful economy, and a successful economy is the precondition to being able to pay for social security.

The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves.

My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport.

I am living proof that money cannot buy friendship.

Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming.

There must be some part of Man that is more than his daily round. Some part of him that will use his profit on a matter of no profit.

Anybody can hear - it takes brains to listen.

This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.