The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China.
We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.
Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.
Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't influenced by European music!
Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.
My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.
Romania will not be able to evolve if it continues to take cruel decisions against sensitive creatures, which are under the protection of European law.
For the next three years, we're going to see different economies work out different problems. For European economies, especially Greece, it would be through default.
I went to live on a kibbutz, and I'd idealized the world of collective, agrarian work, where everyone was equal, everyone contributed, that all this awful European intellectual stuff just fell away.
I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.
Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table.
I know it's inevitable that there will be those who compare 'The Pacific' to 'Band of Brothers.' For years, the Pacific theater of war was not talked about as much as the European theater, yet it was part of the same war.
The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
My best sources are my travels and my collection of National Geographic.
I will open an era of grand national unity.
The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.
I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
Food is national security. Food is craft. Food is everything, when you think about it.
Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle.
We, the people of the United States, we are a great Nation with a great vision.
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
