The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.

God is dead but my hair is perfect.

I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist. War should always be a last resort.

The conservatives want to revolutionize the world all at once. And that's a dangerous proposal.

The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.

I am 60, and I am as much an internationalist as when I was younger, when I was a Marxist-Leninist. Internationalism is one of the rare pieces of that heritage to which I remain loyal. That is Barack Obama's strength. A politician has finally understood that politics is not only about the closing of a mine in Ohio-it is also about the will to reach out, to embrace the world of today's young Americans. That way, young Americans may eventually reconcile with politics.

I really like the United State, its relationship to space and time, its interest in mobility, its cosmopolitanism.