We want to express our sympathy and our solidarity and give our prayers and thoughts to the people who are affected by what has happened out there on the Gulf coast,

I hope that in the next few days we demonstrate as a world our complete solidarity in this fight which is so important to us.

Without wealth creation and wealth generation, there cannot be a proper financing of the system of social solidarity that we want to see,

a very strong and clear declaration of our support and solidarity for the United States and secondly a series of specific measures we will take -- both European and national.

I know I speak on behalf of all NATO allies when I express our sympathy for and solidarity with the British people,

[Later Friday, he was taping a] message of sympathy and solidarity ... be joining our friends in Australia in a day of mourning for the terrible tragedy that took place. We lost lives, they lost a lot of lives.