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" 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. "
Helmut Kohl
Yourself
Us
Service
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" Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so. "
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" As a child, I personally didn't really get to know any Jews. I was eight years old when the Night of Broken Glass happened. And Ludwigshafen was purely a workers' city, so we didn't have a very big Jewish community. What I did know about the Jews, I heard from my mother. My mother was very much pro-Jewish. "
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" I ask myself where Germany stands today and where it wants to go. "
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" I have been underestimated for decades. I have done very well that way. "
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" Political life is like this - elections go back and forth. Representative democracy can only be successful if one sits down and says, 'That's it. I will connect myself,' - as I did - 'connect my existence to a political project.' Then you automatically have in your party a lot of people who say, 'If that fails, so do I'. "
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" My childhood ended in 1942. I was 12, and for the next three years, I lived under incessant bombings. It was a life of constant fear. "
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" Nations with a common currency never went to war against each other. A common currency is more than the money you pay with. "
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" We Germans have learned from history. We are a peace-loving, freedom-loving people. There is only one place for us in the world: at the side of the free nations. "
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" The most important rule of the new Europe is: There must never again be violence in Europe. "
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" Our shared historical experiences led myself and Mitterrand to the decision that we must do everything to prevent further wars. "
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" I have made a very good living, for more than 30 years, by being underestimated. "
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" We all need Europe, not just those of us in Europe. And we Germans need Europe more than the others. Germany is the country with the longest border, the most neighbours, and is, by population and economic strength, the number one in Europe. "
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" If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can deduce that one has no leadership or interest in shaping events. "
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" Peace must be more than the absence of war. "
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" In a democracy, if you don't get the votes, nothing else is possible, no matter how wonderful your dreams. "
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" When people come to write about my period of office, I would be very happy if they say that I made a contribution to finding the happy medium again for the Germans. "
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" We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people. "
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" I don't want to give myself grades. I will leave evaluation of my achievements to history. "
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" The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation. "
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" People in Tel Aviv can not imagine, but in 1990, here in Leipzig or Dresden, whoever wanted to buy a car had to wait 14 years. The East Germans worked like people in the West, but the fruits of their labor were harvested by a criminal regime. "
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" For me it is completely clear that our air bases in Germany would be available to the Americans. "
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" Isolated decisions, however well-founded they might seem to the individual, and national go-it-alone moves must belong to the past. They should not be the 21st-century method of choice, particularly because the consequences of the European community's actions must often be carried collectively. "
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" My parents were Christians - Catholics, but not in the close-minded sense. I remember my mother to be a very pious woman, but she was never against other religions. "
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" There must be no question for us that we in the European Union and the eurozone stand by Greece in solidarity. "
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" I knew that I could never win a referendum in Germany. We would have lost a referendum on the introduction of the euro. That's quite clear. I would have lost, and by seven to three. "
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