Jeroen Dijsselbloem

Taking away the risk from the financial sector and taking it on to the public shoulders is not the right approach.

If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.

If we are going to approach the euro area as a zone with a harsh line in the middle between AAA and non-AAA, between the north and the south, no way are we going to move forward.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

Michelle Obama has gone from political skeptic to political partner to a woman with a White House agenda of her own, and an approval rating higher than the president's.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.