I salute every individual who honours the core values of peace and help in one way or another to make a difference.
If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively.
Improved productivity is another direct benefit of globalization.
Those negatively affected by globalization, those who are losing their jobs, and losing their skills, people out of training, must be looked after. Governments must establish policies, and governments and companies must actually address that issue, so that those who lose out from globalization can be retrained, recycled, re-established, cared for.
I was praised in the U. S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France.
Massive progress has been made in the last five years. More progress has to be made in terms of fiscal union and banking union.
I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.
People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances.
The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
A man with lofty ideas is an uncomfortable neighbor.
My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.