The only thing they (the English) have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease.

National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.

Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It [Great Britain] is the country with the worst food after Finland.

I am logically in favour of a referendum. It would be the only legitimate way.

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.

As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.

If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.

One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.

With God, the fear of failure is slain cold by success that is already hot on the way.

Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood.

Look up. This is the season of shooting stars. Light, two thousand years old, still dazzling. Let me see your face. Your face lit up by twenty centuries.

There is a magic in distance. Look back at the golden lamp-lit rooms of your home from the road of your life, and it all for a moment is exactly how you hoped it would be: warm, peaceful, safe.

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

Imagine living in a country where the cops are all people who're cut out for the job.

I think of Mike Myers as the Buster Keaton of today. I think he's brought us something so special.

When you die it's the end of your life.

Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.