Translation of "Ich möchte fast sagen" in English

I would say 'jobs for the boys', if that phrase were not so terribly 'gender insensitive'.

I feel like saying, "Yes, let them have a bit more grass."

I would even venture to say that it should be resolved at any cost.

A pad is something, well, nasty. I would almost say uhh, immoral.

I won't even say, "Quiet, scoundrel!" Come on!

I would almost call it a Council for the pre­vention of European development.

I would argue that it is only coming of age now.

He became very much, I mean to say, melted with mercy.

Firstly, are we or are we not to strive for what one might call systematic subsidizing?

As a matter of fact, um, I would say he's one of the main reasons that I got interested in Africa.

Today, all that is needed, so to speak, is to accept it legally.

The Council can delegate regulatory powers to the Commission because the Council has the power of making regulations.

And yet agriculture is -1 am tempted to use the term par excellence - a regional sector.

It was dominated by a huge amount of sympathy and – I would almost say a special development of empathy.

Yes, Mother, it's "normal," if I may say so.

The sector in question has been responsible for a striking information campaign. In this case you could almost call it a disinformation campaign.

I hope that there are forces in America strong enough to persuade the President - force him, I would almost say - to add his signature after all.

By doing this it will restore confidence in the very big majority - I am tempted to say the overwhelming majority - of the members and officials of the Commission whose moral integrity is not in doubt.

Is it too much to ask the European Union, I might almost say out of decency, not to cut its aid for the refugees on the border of Thailand and Burma, and to begin immediately to finance cross-border aid, particularly medical assistance?

Pinochet is today the clearest example of the impunity in Latin America, and I would say in the world.

I almost feel like saying, what purpose do we serve if, part-session after part-session, we denounce a number of human rights violations without it stopping the Commission from pursuing its supposedly constructive dialogues and from telling us that progress is being made, but just not in the fields of human rights and justice?

I do not think the approval procedure needs to be made more complicated. As everybody knows, it is of an almost legal nature, I would say.

Because when I look at Bulgaria and Romania on the one side and at Turkey on the other, there is a certain restrained - one might almost say unfair treatment of the Balkans.

The African Union is a major strategic player and, I would even venture to say, a player that, as far as we are concerned, cannot be ignored on the African continent.