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

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.

The flame of the spirit is a burning lamp.

... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs.

Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.

If more women would watch women's sports on TV it would urge [TV] executives to put more on.

I love children. I've always loved children.

I don't believe in lowest common denominators. Our focus has been on delivering value. We're rarely going to be the cheapest theater in a market. We strive to be the best.

I go to work, I do a job, I play a role, and then I go home. I don't wear a cape at home. I'm not an invulnerable alien at home.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

The idea that you're hard to love is ludicrous.

I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes.