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.
I have been underestimated for decades. I've done very well that way.
The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation.
Simon Wiesenthal, like few others personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality.
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.