- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Clear
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me it is completely clear that our air bases in Germany would be available to the Americans.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peace must be more than the absence of war.
- Defend
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- Nov 07, 2020
The army is under orders to defend every place.
- Service
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a Chancellor is trying to push something through, he must be a man of power. And if he's smart, he knows when the time is ripe. In one case - the euro - I was like a dictator... The euro is a synonym for Europe.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political life is like this - elections go back and forth. Representative democracy can only be successful if one sits down and says, 'That's it. I will connect myself,' - as I did - 'connect my existence to a political project.' Then you automatically have in your party a lot of people who say, 'If that fails, so do I'.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood ended in 1942. I was 12, and for the next three years, I lived under incessant bombings. It was a life of constant fear.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to give myself grades. I will leave evaluation of my achievements to history.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I experienced Nazism as a child. Like many of my generation, I was motivated by the desire to prevent another war at any price.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
People in Tel Aviv can not imagine, but in 1990, here in Leipzig or Dresden, whoever wanted to buy a car had to wait 14 years. The East Germans worked like people in the West, but the fruits of their labor were harvested by a criminal regime.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important rule of the new Europe is: There must never again be violence in Europe.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gorbachev's legacy is that he called time on communism, partially against his will, but in fact, he finished it off. Without violence. Without bloodshed. Beyond that, I am struggling to think of much else in terms of real legacy.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Europe has, to put it mildly, been in a poor state since the transition to the 21st century. This is down to national issues, European missteps, and an economic and financial crisis that crashed down on us with enough force to dislodge the essential European idea.
- Decisions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two decisions have damaged the stability both of the euro and of Europe: the premature admission of Greece to the euro area and the breach and subsequent weakening of the stability and growth pact.
- Nov 07, 2020
Where there is no will, no rules or laws can help.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all need Europe, not just those of us in Europe. And we Germans need Europe more than the others. Germany is the country with the longest border, the most neighbours, and is, by population and economic strength, the number one in Europe.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew that I could never win a referendum in Germany. We would have lost a referendum on the introduction of the euro. That's quite clear. I would have lost, and by seven to three.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people come to write about my period of office, I would be very happy if they say that I made a contribution to finding the happy medium again for the Germans.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nations with a common currency never went to war against each other. A common currency is more than the money you pay with.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Germany is our fatherland; Europe is our future.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a democracy, if you don't get the votes, nothing else is possible, no matter how wonderful your dreams.
- Broken Glass
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I personally didn't really get to know any Jews. I was eight years old when the Night of Broken Glass happened. And Ludwigshafen was purely a workers' city, so we didn't have a very big Jewish community. What I did know about the Jews, I heard from my mother. My mother was very much pro-Jewish.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where is Germany now and where does it want to go? It's a question being asked by our partners and allies abroad. We have to return - urgently - to our old dependability. We have to make clear for others what we stand for, where we're headed, and that we know where we belong.
- Deduce
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- Nov 07, 2020
If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can deduce that one has no leadership or interest in shaping events.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Isolated decisions, however well-founded they might seem to the individual, and national go-it-alone moves must belong to the past. They should not be the 21st-century method of choice, particularly because the consequences of the European community's actions must often be carried collectively.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like everything that makes you fat.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Solitary decisions, no matter how well-founded they may appear to individuals, must belong to the past - along with national, unilateralist action.
- Freedom-Loving
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- Nov 07, 2020
We Germans have learned from history. We are a peace-loving, freedom-loving people. There is only one place for us in the world: at the side of the free nations.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a German, in view of the history of World War II and the terrible deeds of the Nazi period, I feel a special obligation to help as much as I can to develop European-Israeli relations and thus contribute to ensuring Israel's future and existence.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our shared historical experiences led myself and Mitterrand to the decision that we must do everything to prevent further wars.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was elected to head the German government, I was fortunate enough to find a partner in Francois Mitterrand.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We humans have an abyss inside us. The more power people have, the greater the danger.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have made a very good living, for more than 30 years, by being underestimated.
- Many
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- Nov 07, 2020
In German history, we don't have many reasons to be proud.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have every reason, despite the resentment and exasperation, to be proud. I have nothing better to be proud of than being proud of German unity.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020