We have to engage in a dialogue with Donald Trump because he is the elected president of the United States of America. But we have to emphatically oppose his foreign policy ideas.

Referendums have always posed a threat when it comes to EU policy, because EU policy is complicated. They're an opportunity for those from all political camps who like to oversimplify things.

The EU is an unique project that replaced war with peace, hate with solidarity. Overwhelming emotion for awarding of Nobel prize to EU

For many people, politics in Brussels and Strasbourg might as well be happening on another planet.

But if you constantly insist only on your own interpretation, it isn't long before it seems patronizing.

I'm not a populist. But I try to present complicated issues in such a way that people know where I stand.

Before we talk about further accessions, we have to consolidate the European Union internally. People are increasingly losing faith in the EU's effectiveness.

I am a man of parliament, a man of the people. I am not a representative of the executives.

A joint European army is a very far-reaching proposal and it would be difficult to implement. Such initiatives are nevertheless needed.

The problem with us EU politicians is that we approach everything with cool rationality, and then wonder why we don't win people over emotionally.

I believe that the majority of people in Europe want to demonstrate solidarity with the refugees.

Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them.

... a little philosophy carries a man from God, but a great deal brings him back again.

My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity.

I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.

Love not often, but forever.

We are living like brothers, Christians and Muslims. Also the Jews lived in peace with us before the occupation began.

The ugliness of the beauty is much horrible than the ugliness of the ugliness.

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself

Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men.

I want to be what I've always wanted to be: dominant.