We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

[Without Pope John Paul II] there would be no end of Communism or at least much later, and the end would have been bloody.

We respect the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter future of the world leads through honest reconciliation of the conflicting interests and not through hatred and bloodshed. To follow that path means to enhance the moral power of the all-embracing idea of human solidarity.

We need a global parliament, a global government and possibly a global ministry for security.

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.