You can't have euro bonds without more interconnection among the national budget policies.

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.

There was something else I couldn't quite define--something that made me uneasy. We were a wrong fit, like unmatching puzzle pieces.

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine.

We are the sons of no one, bastards of young.

I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst.

Lukewarm people call 'radical' what Jesus expected of all His followers.

To move any regime you need to have co-operation and co-ordination between Kurds, Shia Arabs, Sunni Arabs, the people and the army. Until we have this we cannot change the regime.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

The most efficient way to memorise a piece is to use the one which proceeds in an error free manner

For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.