Horst Koehler

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

After a Polish Pope, whose country was first to be invaded by the Germans in World War Two, we now have someone from the generation drafted at the close of the war.

If we know where we want to go, then even a stony road is bearable.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy.