A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.

With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.

Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Politics is not an exact science.

I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.