Using the right of veto would be shooting the Americans in the back.

I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.

The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.

I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community.

I think I would have been a writer, anyhow, in the sense of having written a story every now and then, or continued writing poetry. But it was the war experience and the two novels I wrote about Vietnam that really got me started as a professional writer.

We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan.

If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.

I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.