We really believe our national interests are identical with European interests.

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.

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.

A market that's as open as possible is the precondition for a successful economy, and a successful economy is the precondition to being able to pay for social security.

In every town we lived in, there was one great big door ready to open for anyone — the library. And I never met a library I didn’t like.

I was imprisoned as an innocent person, it's common sense not to go back.

I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington.

Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.

There is another kind of wisdom, the wisdom of following - the wisdom of not taking the lead with your ego.

When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind .

She did not look at the daffodils. They didn't mean anything. She looked at the daffodils. She said, 'Thank you for the daffodils.

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime

Families don't have to match. You don't have to look like someone else to love them.

We must eat three meals a day, even if we're not hungry, and when we fail to fit the current ideal of beauty we must fast, even if we're starving.