Helmut Kohl Quotes

#1. I doubt that the evil spirits of the past, under which we in Europe have already suffered more than enough this century, have been banished for ever.

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#2. We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.

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#3. Simon Wiesenthal, like few others personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality.

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#4. The army is under orders to defend every place.

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#5. Everybody should know that Germany will not go it alone: there will be no restless Reich.

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

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#7. Peace must be more than the absence of war.

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

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#9. George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity.

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#10. For me it is completely clear that our air bases in Germany would be available to the Americans.

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#11. The future will belong to the Germans ... when we build the House of Europe. In the next two years, we will make the process of European integration irreversible. This is a really big battle but it is worth the fight.

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#12. The European Union Treaty ... within a few years will lead to the creation of what the founding fathers of modern Europe dreamed of after the war, the United States of Europe.

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

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#14. 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.

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