Before a negotiation can proceed and be completed, what is outside the scope of negotiation needs to be agreed.

When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.

Massive progress has been made in the last five years. More progress has to be made in terms of fiscal union and banking union.

We cannot just look at a country by looking at charts, graphs, and modelling the economy. Behind the numbers there are people.

If you have an overwhelming majority of one sex over the other, and clearly in our case at the moment - and it has been like this for a long time - it is male over female, you tend to have group thinking. You tend to have common references, combined with competition, combined in this case with testosterone. I'm not suggesting it's a toxic mix, but I'm saying it needs to be tempered and altered and modified and made better by diversity.

The financial industry is a service industry. It should serve others before it serves itself.

When you think of a safe and solid arbitration place, you think of Switzerland, Sweden, Canada. Those attributes may be associated with clichés, but I think they resonate with a lot of people and they are a solid base for Canada to co-operate and help others.