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.

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

Disarmament requires trust.

In this life of ours we remain directed toward the relative utopia of a better world, and sensibly this can be the only model for our action.

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

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.