“When you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.”

“But we can't go back. We can only go forward.”

“When your back is against the wall, there's only one way to go and that's forward.”

“I just want it to go back to the way it was."
"It'll never go back to the way it was, Frankie. But you have to make sure it goes forward.”

“I believe in Serbia that moves forward - towards the European Union. There will be no going back for Serbia, only forwards”

“You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.”

“You can't really move forward until you look back.

[From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University]”

“After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward.”

“What you can't do is have a situation where you get a rejection of the treaty and then you just bring it back with a few amendments and say we will have another go. You can't do that and I am not going to get drawn into speculating the way forward because I don't intend to lose the referendum.”

“You can't go forward if you're looking backward. You run into walls that way.”