We no longer have the pact from 1997; it was radically amended in 2005 and the Commission is applying this Stability Pact with wisdom and rationality.

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.

When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge.

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life

A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.

Today I can joyfully say that one of the best undertakings I have ever made was to study the subject of responsibility

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

You just gotta do what you gotta do whatcha can.

Skepticism is history's bedfellow.

Moscow is the city where if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at her feet first.

We would have to invent the U.N if we did not have it which is not an original thought.

I grow numb; I grow stiff. How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my sympathetic heart?