I have the greatest respect for the survivors of the Holocaust. We can't even imagine what these people went through.

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.

In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.

I have the greatest respect for the survivors of the Holocaust. We can't even imagine what these people went through.

Germany will never be a real, free thinking and free feeling friend of Israel, because it will always fall under this shadow.

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.