I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.

One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.

I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.

I am dying innocent. The sentence is wrong. God protect Germany and make Germany great again. Long live Germany! God protect my family!

As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.

I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.

Himmler, Bormann, and Goebbels, they were probably bad fellows.

My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent.

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933.

The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.

It was just me and him, there in that place where tragedy had happened, where I thought my life had ended. But somehow, he made it seem like a home again. Somehow, he gave it back to me.

I had always assumed that cliche was a suburb of Paris until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

If one swallows a cup of chocolate only three hours after a copious lunch, everything will be perfectly digested and there will still be room for dinner.

Every one knows that there are no real forests in England.The deer in the parks of the great are demurely domestic cattle, fat as London alderman.

My brother is one of my true heroes. Steady and sober where I am impulsive and emotional.

We learned early on that we had chemistry and I was so grateful for that. It's like one of the few magical things about film that still exists.

From this day forward until the end of the world...we in it shall be remembered...we band of brothers.