Well, that's the way democracy works. We have to build this Europe with the material we have at our disposal. And this material is national democracy.

Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time.

To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.

Europe is a woman, now middle-aged, who has already had a number of heart attacks and is currently experiencing the biggest health crisis of her life, but one that need not be fatal.

There is already a generation of European graduates who feel they have been robbed of the better future they were led to expect. They are members of a new class: the precariat.

Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.

The Eurozone has clearly gone spectacularly wrong, pulling down all the continental economies.

Europe's biggest problem is its success.

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.

All the makeup in this world can never cover up an empty brain.

I may not be the kind of person you want me to, but I will always be there for you.

I'm a real Suzy Homemaker.

We have an army far better adapted to attack than to defend. Let us fight at advantage before we are forced to fight at disadvantage.

But, yeah, I'd love to do something else in someone else's movie.

The more power that we have, the less human we are.

When I think of the person that I thought was Bill Clinton, I think he had genuine remorse. When I think of the person that I now see is 100 percent politician, I think he's sorry he got caught.

You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it

We need to consolidate our enlargement agenda but be cautious with new commitments.

My wife thinks a B&B is a romantic getaway. I think it's creepy, sharing coffee with strangers who were eavesdropping on you the night before.