The U.K. is much stronger as a part of Europe, and Europe is much stronger with the U.K. as a driving force.

Those who argue for Brexit are wrong, and that is because they have not been properly informed about the costs.

We cannot sustain long-term growth in our economies if we do not protect and preserve our environment.

If you are trying to favor the unions by having more rigid labor market and keeping wages very high, you could be blocking people from getting new jobs.

Integrity delivers better lives.

We are dealing with the greater challenges of globalisation. It is generating, in many cases, an increase in the levels of inequality in societies... that is undesirable.

Our mission is to make the world economy work better.

One of the greatest challenges of democracies today is the question of financing campaigns. It's a tremendous challenge. Obviously I think the solution is to have the governments pay for all the campaigns and not to have any private contributions.

Japan's future prospects depend on ensuring fiscal sustainability over the long term.

Ensuring a better future for all South Africans will require increased access to higher education, a stronger and fairer labour market, deeper participation in regional markets, and a regulatory framework that fosters entrepreneurship and allows small businesses to thrive.

Coal is the most carbon-intensive fuel available for electricity generation. The most urgent threat to climate policy is the scale of new investments in unabated coal-fired electricity generation still being planned.

Some challenges remain, but the bottom line is that low-carbon options can and should play a much greater role in energy supply.

We need to achieve zero emissions from fossil fuel sources by the second half of the century. That doesn't mean by 2050 exactly, but it means by that time we need to be pretty much on the way to achieving it.

We are totally schizophrenic. We are trying to reduce emissions, and we subsidize the consumption of fossil fuels.

I think there are going to be more countries joining the euro.

The euro is going to continue to be the largest single trading block.

I say just put a big fat tax on carbon.

Israel should share its great wealth with its neighbors, like the Palestinians, in areas like governance and investment as well as the building of institutions.

Israel is a producer of growth.

Israel has been doing very well, but there are challenges the country faces, like poverty and social integration of the Orthodox, Arab, Beduin, and Ethiopian population, which will be essential for sustaining strong growth over time.

It will be crucial the E.U. and the U.K. maintain the closest economic relationship possible.

Uncertainty and fears of social decline and exclusion have reached the middle class in many societies.

It is not good to cut exports or imports.

Economic resources are not all that matter in people's lives.

We need better measures of people's expectations and levels of satisfaction, of how they spend their time, of their relations with other people... We need to focus on stocks as much as on flows, and we need to broaden the range of assets that we consider important to sustain our well-being.

The idea that if governments open up and become more democratic they will fall is a false dilemma.

More dangerous than voting for change... is that people no longer vote because they have lost trust not only in governments but in democracy.

Why did we lose Brexit? Why, because 60 per cent of youth didn't believe they needed to go and vote.

It is always good to make new friends.

To me, my guitar has always been my orchestra.

I loved John Lennon, by the way.

I was very, very fortunate that 'Chico and the Man' was on TV, that helped me quite a bit. Of course, having the No. 1 Christmas song in the Spanish market, 'Feliz Navidad,' doesn't hurt either.

My first memory of playing music was when I was 3 years old in Puerto Rico. I played percussion on a tin can behind my uncle, who played the cuatro.

When I first heard Bob Dylan, I'll be honest, I didn't like him. But I was shallow of mind and didn't understand the poetry. I just judged him on his singing and his guitar playing.

When I did the anthem, I did it with the understanding in my heart and mind that I did it because I'm a patriot. I was trying to be a grateful patriot. I was expressing my feelings for America when I did the anthem my way instead of just singing it with an orchestra.

My parents did not want us to lose our culture and our language. And that was a good thing.

I felt bad about the controversy because they stopped playing my songs on American radio stations. But there was nothing wrong with what I did. Now everybody sings the national anthem the way they want.

New York will always be a part of me no matter where I go.

I didn't mean for it to cause such a furor, but I was the first guy to ever do the national anthem with a guitar. Everyone else had the big brass band. Nowadays it's tracks that they sing to, but in my day, we had no tracks. And I was the only orchestra that I knew that was the best orchestra and that was me and my guitar.

I have genuine respect for women and I want to win their respect. I don't want them to look at me and say, 'Oh, another man with the same attitudes as most men.'

Very few guitarists play nylon-string. They don't know how to get the sound out of them. That's something I've spent a lot of time on.

When I came on in '68, I was really the lone wolf.

One day I heard Ray Charles on the radio and I found out he was blind. I thought, 'You know what, if there's room for Ray, there might be room for Jose.'

I taught myself until I was about 16. And then I studied classical guitar with some teachers.

I did whole Latin albums and it was like Beatlemania for me in the Latin world, the screaming girls, not being able to leave the hotel, at the airport met by screaming fans. That was something!

I take pride in the fact that I was the first Hispanic artist to really crack the English market.

I have no regrets, though I was the first artist to stylize the national anthem, and I got a lot of protests for it. I have no regrets. America has been good to me. I'm glad that I'm here.

It's a wonderful thing to play with symphony orchestras - I've played with many - but it's really special in Israel because you have so many great musicians.

Some people wanted me deported - as if you can be deported to Puerto Rico.

I'm lucky that I can play all kinds of music, that it appeals to all of the generations.