They have it wrong in asking if Schroeder favors Britain over France, or France over Britain. Schroeder favors Germany. That is what we all have to understand.

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.

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

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.

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.

Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks.

Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now.

For the past fourteen years, it's been my job to push past my boundaries and do things I never thought I could do, which is why it's been such a fulfilling career.

Anything I learned was just work hard, just keep working and don't worry about the outside stuff. Whatever happens will happen.

I'm going to scare a lot of kids Thursday night.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

If I was dealing with a trader, every other word had to be a four-letter word.

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

There was never a day when I was as good as Joe DiMaggio at his best. Joe was the best, the very best I ever saw.