The participation in European elections was always not very exciting. People are very interested in European issues, but they don't see the person who is representing Europe.

Transforming the European Union into a single State with one army, one constitution and one foreign policy is the critical challenge of the age

Taking stock of 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' a decade later, the Financial Times concluded that the US won the war, Iran won the peace, and Turkey won the contracts. I can only agree.

I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Germany is to be contained from outside and heterogenized from the inside by influx, 'diluted' so to speak.

What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education.

Let's forget the reunification, let's just shut up and don't talk about that topic for the next 20 years.

There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.

India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.

A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process.

Solutions must be based on compromises.

Peace cannot be achieved they have to be plucked out of their pod.

Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.

I'll love you until I'm ashes in the dirt beneath the Earth. Then, I'll love you even more.

I'm for Barack Obama. We gotta have the Muslim cell in there just to piss Rush Limbaugh and the right wing off.

To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.

In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me

England is surrounded by enemies - by real enemies who hate her. Why? Because she tries to be honest; and she tries to be free.

I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.

I like it [Rotterdam] much better than Amsterdam which is too much like a postcard. It's too cute for me. Rotterdam is more real, it's got a stomach.

I love to cook for my husband and daughter. I enjoy going to the market for fresh vegetables.