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

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.

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

Simon Wiesenthal, like few others personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality.

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

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.