You can't let a candidate run for too long. He will be dragged along, cut apart, put back together and ripped to shreds again - from both the political opponents and the media.

I would happily help to turn the stone being thrown at me into a boomerang.

Nevertheless, I don't hesitate to say that elections in Germany are decided in the center, not on the fringes and not in the accumulation of minority interests.

If things sometimes get tough, you can't ask yourself what impact it's having on you. It isn't an option.

The euro is a vital issue for Germany. There is no other country that derives as much benefit from the common domestic market and the monetary union as Germany.

The U.S. will lose its status as the superpower of the world financial system. The world will become multi-polar.

I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does.

Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.

Grandfather always said school's a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

I had everything summed up in a nutshell unfortunately I lost the nut.

If I could grant wishes do you think I would be driving a cab?

If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.

It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there's no buzz, there's no interest.

The church is called to be now what the world is called to be ultimately

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody's castle-roof perforated.

Trying to say something is all you got in life.