The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation.
You didn't just pay lip service to the goal of overcoming the division of Europe and Germany... Rather, you put yourself at the forefront of those who encouraged us on the way to unity.
Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so.
Peace must be more than the absence of war.
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.