Germany is our fatherland Europe is our future.

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

The European Union Treaty... within a few years will lead to the creation of what the founding fathers of modern Europe dreamed of after the war, the United States of Europe.

I have been underestimated for decades. I've done very well that way.

We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.

Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so.

Everybody should know that Germany will not go it alone: there will be no restless Reich.

I doubt that the evil spirits of the past, under which we in Europe have already suffered more than enough this century, have been banished for ever.

You didn't just pay lip service to the goal of overcoming the division of Europe and Germany... Rather, you put yourself at the forefront of those who encouraged us on the way to unity.

George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity.

Simon Wiesenthal, like few others personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality.

The gentle pulsing and flickering of stars and nebulae made a kind of music, a sweet easy mesh of whispered tones and sighing harmonies that held him in its force like the earth [holding] the moon.

To a materialist life is nothing but a complex self-sustaining pattern, easily disrupted and gone when destroyed.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.

The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.

The painter's appreciation for beauty is more conscious, for he spends his life trying to communicate his feelings to others.

I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.

Is it possible to be nostalgic about old fears?

Even smiling makes my face ache.

I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time.