Helmut Kohl Quotes

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 Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation.

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

If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can deduce that one has no leadership or interest in shaping events.

Germany is our fatherland Europe is our future.