We should remind our American friends of their own motto: United we stand. Divided, we fall.

What we have to do is to definitively remove the last vestiges of power from those who treat terms such as liberal democracy, free markets and Europe with suspicion.

I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle.

We must go beyond being reactive and defensive. As Europeans we must regain our self-confidence and realize our own strengths.

Over the years, the European Union and the United States have worked together to ensure peace and prosperity for our citizens and for people around the world.

My Kashubian family, like the Jews, are people who were born and live in border areas and were suspected by the Nazis and by the Communists of being disloyal.

I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.

I am glad that Angela Merkel is the German Chancellor, as she tries to combine a sense of responsibility with morality and values. Because this is the essence of Europe.

Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.

The strategic partnership between the European Union and the United States is rooted in our shared values of freedom, human rights, democracy and a belief in the market economy.

My government is in no sense anti-Russian.

I don’t want to go to heaven. I want to transform the earth to be heaven.

The problem with striving for the best, is that there will be always better than the best.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

We British play an important role in Europe, even if we have a traditional and historical ambivalence towards the continent.

You cannot travel to the known; because all travels are towards the future and the future is unknown!

For me, pressure is self-imposed, and it's good for me. The best actors are the most prepared because it's all imaginary and you have to know the character inside out.

I had been looking for a New York apartment, but I said, Why not give LA a go?

Uptown living, you've got to call 911. Where I am, I am 911.

Bushido is realised in the presence of death. In the case of having to choose between life and death you should choose death. There is no other reasoning.