The problem is: When two governments or institutions in Europe hold differing opinions, it is immediately a crisis.

When the going gets tough, you have to lie.

When it becomes serious, you have to lie.

I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates.

I believe neither the French nor the Dutch really rejected the constitutional treaty.

I notice with a certain sense of regret that far too many Europeans are returning to a regional and national mindset.

Decisions can only be reached in Europe if France and Germany agree.

It is not acceptable that European Union countries are divided into those who give and those who take.

I am chilled by the realization of how similar circumstances in Europe in 2013 are to those of 100 years ago.

It is not more Europe or less Europe that we need. We need a better Europe.

I am for secret, dark debates.

lessons of medicrity, to a great extent, produce students of mediocrity

Then, when I thought it couldn’t get any better, I see it. And I knew, only then, that I’m truly in Heaven.

Every morning I have something to do, I'm better off. It's bad to get up and not have something to do.

As a kid, I would wake up, and there'd be a jazz funeral while I'm walking to school. And when I come home, you can find Rebirth band playing for a birthday party the same day.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve.

I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensitive to blacks.

As a parent, if you have multiple kids, you can't teach them all the same thing because they all have different personalities. They're their own person.

I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.

Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.