Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by unbearably painful crises that made most people wish they could recoil into the past.

Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire.

We will compromise and compromise and compromise but we will never be compromised.

Nothing is more boring than talking to people who share my opinion anyway.

The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years.

I don't believe a Brexit will hurt the City of London as one of the largest financial centers in the world.

Germany is Europe's heart. But bitterness is widespread. Currently the Germans hate the Greeks and the Greeks hate the Germans. The demonization of the country has to stop if we want a strong Europe. So I am setting a positive example.