We also need a fund that can say 'no'.

We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform.

Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development.

To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.

What we have achieved is a good example of how the right policies deliver.

So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy.

There is not an alternative to the US as the engine for growth.

Most cases, I would say, in a huge amount of cases, countries that have worked with us and have used our financial facilities have come out quick... more quickly and in a better shape from a crisis than would have come out otherwise.

We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy.

And it's also producing a growth in debt to the United States that will weight very heavily in a country that has to address issues like having more old people to be covered by Social Security or by pension in the future.

We also need a fund that can say 'no'.

We have believed for many years, much earlier than anyone else was talking about this issue, that it was in the interest of China to evolve to a more flexible exchange rate system.

Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.

And then you might decide that the country can just spend maybe years or decades to regain that credit, or maybe give that county the support, the financial support that the market is not willing not do.

We have seen a strong increase in oil prices and up to this year we see that the world has been able to absorb that.

I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.

Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.

A bad mood is like bad breath. Both are wrong to inflict onto others.

It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket.

Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion

Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.

I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.

I would like to believe that I still am a shy person; I am very introverted. I have a problem communicating.

If you look to others for fulfillment you will never be truly fulfilled.

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.

I quite like L.A.

When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.

I'm getting optimistic. I think, as I talk to people around the country - they seem to get it. They want a return to those things that made America different and great.

It's all just venom to the soul and symptomatic of a larger issue: the idea of the shortcut. The result without the fight. The fight is the thing. The work.

Sometimes spending time with someone who is perceived as 'successful' can make us feel less successful.

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

Choosing to associate with positive, optimistic people will accelerate our positive growth.

I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

I mean whatever I do it's important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether I'm doing a dance track or something like the Russian album for example.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

I connect with an aura, with energy. And if the person with whom I connect happens to be a female, that's just the way it is.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.

Competition is good.