The good thing is that all the symbolic elements are gone, and that which really matters - the core - is left.

Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries.

Myopia, in more than ninety-five percent of cases, begins between five and ten years of age. It increases largely because the myopic eye is given a minus lens.

Business as usual is dead. Green growth is the answer to both our climate and economic problems

That's what it's like when people have crawled very high up in a tree, then they sometimes need help to get down with ladders and ropes and other instruments.

I welcome the signing by the presidential candidates Dr. Abdullah Abdullah and Dr. Ashraf Ghani of an agreement on the formation of a government of national unity in Afghanistan.

Nato allies have been looking at various missile-defence options for some time. Nato itself is developing protections for our deployed troops.

Russia should recognize the freedom of countries, such as Ukraine, to choose their alliances.

I am happy to announce that we have reached an agreement on the question of transit between the Kaliningrad region and the rest of the Russian Federation.

Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That's why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.

The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery is a threat to both the Nato allies and Russia.

He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over the same soil.

I've worked a lot in comedy. As much as I love playing dramatic roles, it's always nice to be able to have some humor around when working.

If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.

What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.

It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party.

The more I know about men the more I like dogs.

The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.

There's always something in most world folk musics that always seems connected; whether it's a bagpipe or a tambura, there's always some sort of drone instrument, and there's always percussion.

Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.

Christmas is fun anyway. It's a myth organized over the years and gained different mythological qualities as the years go by.