The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
“To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough.”
“European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.”