Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.
In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budgetary sphere.
If the euro becomes a factor promoting Europe's drifting apart, then the foundation of the European project is destroyed.
The two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption.
There is no government in Europe where ministers go through that kind of confirmation process, which in fact is modeled on the way the U. S. cabinet members are confirmed.
I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US.
My aspiration is not to be loved. It is that my government be respected and credible.
The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours. God made eternity. Let us escape from the despotism of time altogether. " These ancient and hereditary politenesses filled Nessim with emotion.
I can't see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
I use poetry to explain myself to myself. It is a way of investigating who you really are, what you feel, what survives the pressure of writing. There are a lot of things that you can't write down because they aren't true. You can only put down what holds water at the time that you are doing it.
I studied to be a lawyer, and after that I did something, obviously, completely different. With change, you learn something. If you do the same thing over and over again, you never learn anything.