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.

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.

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

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.

I have learned two important lessons from my association with the Marine Corps: always be on time and always be ready to do what is required when you get there.

One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It's a service issue.

Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.

...It's easier to find a way to make money at something you love than to learn to love a job that you can make money at.

When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.

I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.