Terrorists also want to use simple and reliable arms.

I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.

Then it was like a genie out of the bottle and it began to walk all on its own and in directions I did not want.

I created a weapon to defend the borders of my motherland. It's not my fault that it's being used where it shouldn't be. The politicians are more to blame for this.

When a young man, I read somewhere the following: God the Almighty said, 'All that is too complex is unnecessary, and it is simple that is needed.' So this has been my lifetime motto – I have been creating weapons to defend the borders of my fatherland, to be simple and reliable.

I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work - for example a lawnmower.

It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed agricultural machines. (...) If someone asks me how I can sleep at night knowing that my arms have killed millions of people, I respond that I have no problem sleeping, my conscience is clean. I constructed arms to defend my country.