Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

For example the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He's right. A hundred years from now the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic.

I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with a positive vision for the future of the European Union. A future in which Britain wants and should want to play a committed and active part.

Freedom must be gained step by step slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.

In the long term Germany didn't need a finance minister who was absent during important negotiations in the European Council. But the chancellor strongly encouraged me to stay. And everything did work out for the best in the end.

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors officials the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.

We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.

It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.