The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.

Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.

The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.

We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.

I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations.

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

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.