In a democracy, if you don't get the votes, nothing else is possible, no matter how wonderful your dreams.

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.

There is nothing to me but you. I know it’s pathetic but, oh darling, it’s true.

There are some sufferings that we seem as a creature to forget, or we would never survive as a creature among all the other creatures.

She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

I'm not sure why there's this anger in the youth, but we need to talk about it. Kids need to get help if they need help, and bullies need to be helped as well.

Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.

The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right, and the dishonesty of the left.

Justified" is even better than "just as if I'd never sinned." It is also "just as if I'd always obeyed.

In science, a path that turns out to be a dead end is very useful because you don't devote resources to focusing on that; you go elsewheres.

You're not gonna tell me who I am. I'm gonna tell you who I am.

In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.