You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.

I wore bulletproof vests, and my bodyguards had the option of having bulletproof vests - I bought five sets.

I am, as a European, absolutely shocked by European people. I am also shocked by European nationalist people. They have allowed themselves to be so emasculated so silently.

I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.

What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.

Had I been in Toronto, I would certainly have been killed in this attack. In the room where I normally sleep, the flames and the smoke and the soot is such that the gases would have killed me.

I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.

Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.

Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance.

The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach.

But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.

If you don't like the consequences of change then you have chosen to stay the same.

The most difficult experience one might ever have, is to grieve the loss of a Loved-one who is still alive.

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

I could truly have gone through life thinking that women were these venomous creatures. Turns out, they're not.

If gold ruste, what shall iren do?

If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.

There are things about us that make us who we are, personality traits, or capacities that we have, or knowledge we possess or that we don't possess, habits we have that are good or bad.

People have become so selfish that they no longer care for others, or anything other than their own welfare.