I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

I'm a sailor, not a politician.

I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.

The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other.

As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.

What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain.

In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested.