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.

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

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

George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity.

Everybody should know that Germany will not go it alone: there will be no restless Reich.

The future will belong to the Germans... ...when we build the House of Europe. In the next two years, we will make the process of European integration irreversible. This is a really big battle but it is worth the fight.

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