I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.
I don't attach importance to great speeches or philosophy.
It is now up to us to see that we embark on the next stage leading to political unity, which I think is the consequence of economic unity, so that Europe can in the future also play a political role on the international stage, leading even as far as a common defence policy.
In a Union of 15 now, you must take into account the sensibilities of everyone.
A quota is always something artificial that can only last for a certain period of time.
You don't help your enterprise with a policy of protection.
There could be some compromise, but I think we have to stick to the provisions of the treaty, and the provisions of the treaty are saying that the president is appointed for a mandate of eight years time. I think it would be very damaging for the European Central Bank if there would be a splitting of this mandate.
There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind
After sketching his program for the scientific revolution that he foresaw, Bacon ends his account with a prayer: "Humbly we pray that this mind may be steadfast in us, and that through these our hands, and the hands of others to whom thou shalt give the same spirit, thou wilt vouchsafe to endow the human family with new mercies". That is still a good prayer for all of us as we begin the twenty-first century.
Show gratitude. Gratitude is a simple but powerful thing.
A dark-skinned human with four arms walks toward me across the floor of the club, clad only in a belt strung with human skulls.