Helmut Kohl

I have been underestimated for decades. I have done very well that way.

Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so.

The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation.

I don't like to get in front of people.

Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.