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I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and then a few years later Napoleon Bonaparte as emperor.

Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.

I know a lot of Eastern Europeans, and because of what they have been through and what they have seen, they have an attitude where they are not easily fooled.

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.

My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.

Europeans have it better than the Americans. The Americans work too hard. The balance is out of whack. Europe's hung onto a little bit more of living a life and then working as well.

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

One has to be foolish or irredeemably stupid to believe that anything good can come to Europe from the land of presumed opportunity.

I want to tell stories about Europe - I feel profoundly European, I don't feel like an American.