I was in psychological warfare in World War II, so I know psychological warfare when I see it.

You must have, if socialism was to succeed, a socialism with lots of democratic elements in it.

We certainly hoped perestroika would win out and that there would be changes. We knew all along that socialism could flourish only with a certain amount of freedom and democracy.

Even in West Germany in the beginning, people wanted a kind of socialism.

If you live in a system that is suppressive, you don't walk upright, you always go with your head down.

People who were not active in the intellectual life of the country could go on without feeling restricted, except they could not go where they wanted. They could not cross the border to the West whenever they liked.

The idea of a socialism with a human face was something that I absolutely could support, because it was my idea from the very first.