The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.

I have left the federal government and the German Bundestag; I have resigned from all my positions in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.

The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.

Trust cannot be commanded; and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust.

One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.

Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.