We certainly hoped perestroika would win out and that there would be changes. We knew all along that socialism could flourish only with a certain amount of freedom and democracy.

I certainly hoped that in the Eastern part of Germany, what was just beginning to be called the German Democratic Republic, you would develop a system of socialism with freedom and democracy.

I was in psychological warfare in World War II, so I know psychological warfare when I see it.

The Wall was the actual symbol of a defeat, of inferiority.

If you live in a system that is suppressive, you don't walk upright, you always go with your head down.

Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress it.

A great number of people in the East German parts had been Nazis, so the change of mind was not altogether there.

A foreman in the East wouldn't know how many workers he would have the next day, because part of his working force had left the system to go to West Germany.

Even in West Germany in the beginning, people wanted a kind of socialism.

I not only saw the possibility of nuclear war, I feared it very much. If they started a military conflagration, it would automatically lead to nuclear warfare.

You must have, if socialism was to succeed, a socialism with lots of democratic elements in it.

We see the greatness of God in times of great challenge.

Power of prayer, serenity for the soul.

Explore the infinite possibilities in existence.

Out of sleeping a waking Out of waking a sleep.

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know.

What you dismiss as an ordinary coincidence may be an opening to an extraordinary adventure.

By doing that [ saying no boots on the ground], she [Hillary Clinton] has empowered the enemy, she's empowered the enemy.

Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.

Handicaps are really to be used another way to benefit yourself and others.