Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.

They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.

I'm a fighter, not a quitter.

We are intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich.

We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.

I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this.

I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.

Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.

The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.

Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations.

Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world.

The problems of the past.How the problems of the past, uncorrected, inevitably became the problems of the future.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Some of the Scotland players need to look themselves in the face.

Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .

I tried to be all intellectual and erudite and with others I'd just swear and curse and be an idiot. And suddenly, when they're all in one space, I don't know who I am.

Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones There's something in this richness that I hate. I love the look, austere, immaculate, Of landscapes drawn in pearly monotones.

The only reason men fail is because of broken focus

The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting.