Because I'm a democrat! The will of the people is sovereign.

Warm congratulations to my friend Barack Obama. Look forward to continuing to work together.

In a race for limited resources, it is the energy efficient that will win the race

The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc.

It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU.

But we will say something else. That for far too long in this country, people who can work, people who are able to work, and people who choose not to work: you cannot go on claiming welfare like you are now.

The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history, Europe has experience [with] heretics who turned out to have a point.