George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity.

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.

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.

It is our ability to forget our problems, through the process of thought, rather than the passage of time, that frees us from the circumstances of our past.

I pulled myself back before wind could knock me down. I survived the wind and my own person.

Poetry is meant to be heard.

The Gulf states are happy for us to fight and die. That's good for everybody, but the Americans fighting and dying.

When I'm not paralytic, I like to play golf.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders.

When someone really believes in what they're saying, but it's crazy, it's like my favorite thing on earth.

The Savior taught us to love not only our friends but also those who disagree with us- and even those who repudiate us.

It's (baseball) on the radio and in the newspapers every day, the only game you can follow on that basis. From whatever arm's length you choose, it's always there.