European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.

The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market; it is a guarantee of democracy, freedom, justice, and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees.

If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow.

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.

But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level.

One cannot have economic growth without security.

Non-proliferation will only work if all states are willing to cooperate, and that will only happen if all feel they are being treated fairly.