U.S. companies rely on the European market for more than half of their global foreign profits.

The U.S. - E.U. economic relationship dwarfs America's economic ties with China.

Proliferation of nuclear weapons to terrorist organisations is far more dangerous than proliferation of nuclear weapons to states, even states like North Korea.

The E.U. is the world's fastest growing democratic body.

When the E.U. and the U.S. agree, other countries follow.

The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market; it is a guarantee of democracy, freedom, justice, and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees.

Financial service providers act as the lubricating oil in the economy. They link consumers who want to invest their savings for a good return with companies who want to borrow on best terms for expansion.

Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.

Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China.

European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.

We can demonstrate, by our own example, how E.U. freedoms, including the freedom of nationals of other E.U. countries to come and work here, has enabled us to expand our economy.

That's where my job comes in. Getting the E.U. and U.S. to agree.

The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined.

One cannot have economic growth without security.

Non-proliferation will only work if all states are willing to cooperate, and that will only happen if all feel they are being treated fairly.

But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level.

If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow.

The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and analyze intelligence.

Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education.

A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence.

States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.

The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and transnational crime, advancing trade liberalization, and combating piracy and intellectual property violations.

U.S. companies earn more from their investments in the EU than in the rest of the world combined.

The time horizon may be too long for sole reliance on market solutions - but perhaps the inventiveness of the financial services industry will prove me wrong that point!

U.S. companies rely on the European market for more than half of their global foreign profits.

The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free.

The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.

It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs.

Falling in love is more than infatuation. It is the need to feel whole to feel safe to be healed to join together with someone heart and soul.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.

I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me.

This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body: Scripture is perfectly clear on that head.

I guess television is so much on the word. It's so much closer to playwriting - the scale is more just about the voices and the internal lives. Movies, it's a very different canvas.

I'm just a real person and I tell it like it is. I don't have a lot of secrets, which has been a fault of mine.

We should not and cannot change all our differences. Each of us brings from our own background things which we should share. There is good in diversity.

The attraction in this city is money, from gambling. What you are if you work here is a shill.

PCs don't suck. They're inadequate.

Railing at scientists for massaging tree-ring statistics won't stop the globe from warming if the globe is actually, you know, warming.

You cannot control what happens to you but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you. In that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.

I did the voice of Cyclops on 'Shrek the Third'. I don't know how I got that. They said they wanted a Michael Chiklis type, and apparently it came down to me and Michael Chiklis, so how they gave it to me, I don't know.

I am tired of being roasted. I had a great deal of hard luck while manager of the team and somehow or other couldn't get the best out of the material I had at hand.

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.

It’s not bragging if you can back it up.

There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting.

It was exciting for me, as I got to be one of the guys in 'Dishoom.'