"... new EU embassies lack the expertise in the field of culture and given the budget cuts in all Member States it is important to confront this challenge together."

“I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had”

Source : "Nat Hentoff: Obama Dangerous, Destructive". Interview with John W. Whitehead, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 11, 2009.

“As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.”

Source : Said at the "Meet the Press" program in July 1973. "His Imperial Majesty Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Shahanshah, Aryamehr: an operational code". Book by William W. Sitz, archive.org. 1975.

“You're a coward if you don't stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.”

“Winning is only important in war and surgery.”

“'Tis the night - the night Of the grave's delight...”

“Personally, I never admired communists because they operate on the theory that human beings are nice people.”

“I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook.”

Source : "My favourite table" by Chloe Diski, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2002.

“When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!”