Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so.

The European Union Treaty... within a few years will lead to the creation of what the founding fathers of modern Europe dreamed of after the war, the United States of Europe.

The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation.

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.

I have been underestimated for decades. I've done very well that way.

I doubt that the evil spirits of the past, under which we in Europe have already suffered more than enough this century, have been banished for ever.