We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.

I’ve always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, ‚Hi,‘ that the people ought to get their money’s worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – meaning primarily the United States – come down to two fundamental issues: ‚What are the accepted and applicable ‚rules of world order,‘ and how do these apply in the case of Kosovo?‘

Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.

London is a roost for every bird.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there’s no use.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

When you stand for something, you’ve got to stand for it all the way, not half way.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

Foreigners don’t want to invest any more in France – and this is not working.

Saddam’s goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That’s part of the normal diplomatic relations.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

There’s not going to be a World War III, because there is no one to have World War III with.

When you are nominated for the best player in Europe, the Ballon d’Or, playing in the Champions League, there is so much pressure. You don’t know what will happen. This pressure is inside you – you always have it.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Marriage is the death of hope.

All I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

We’re close friends – the American people, the Israeli people, our governments. There’s absolutely no daylight – none – between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel’s security.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.

China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it’s not an ‚us versus them,‘ it’s an ‚us and them‘ type scenario.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

Once you have six children, you’re committed.

If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours – as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

I’ve been away since I was pretty much eight, traveling to the car tracks, and then going to Europe and traveling more.

I have spoken to Chinese leaders occasionally on human rights, but I’ve always done it in private.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.