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

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.

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 Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation.

Good people protect people they love even if that means that pretending that everything is okay.

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

But this is called show business, not show family.

If you can drink beer while doing it, it's not a sport

I've never tried to work chronologically. I don't think I have the discipline to do that.

Give the needs you lack and they will be returned to you one hundred fold.

Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.

It's great to work with people that you like, any job, no matter what you do.

To err is human, to forgive is against company policy.

Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else.