What could become a danger to world peace is Iran's nuclear program and the country's open threat to annihilate Israel.

In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.

Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.

We need a greening of globalisation.

Real life is happening outside and not in front of a computer.

The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense.

Iran is the only country in the world that's threatening to erase another country from the map as part of a collective genocide.

Maybe it is the last chance for Europe to influence standards for world trade. Next it will be between the US and the Asia-Pacific region.

I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as well.

I'm hearing different things, but there is concern that stable Germany is no longer quite so stable.

Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe.

Having lived with kings, I have become a king in my own home.

If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.

When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot in it and hang on.

Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendour. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety.Sink of iniquity.In two thousand years, Paris had seen it all.

First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.

What I do and who I am are two different things. And they always will be.

The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.

I want to live. I didn't have time to die.

The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart.