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

The army is under orders to defend every place.

We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.

For me it is completely clear that our air bases in Germany would be available to the Americans.

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation.

Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so.

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.