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

God is dead but my hair is perfect.

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.

Even if it doesn't sound like it at first, that's an identity that Europe can go out into the world with and take a leading role.

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

Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.

There is a true weakness in American thought today: their incapacity to be interested in the intelligence of evil.