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

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.

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

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

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.

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.