Kohl, Helmut

The assassination attempt on Hitler had to be risked - at any price

The professional civil service has constitutional status and must not be touched

The foundation for a society of humanity is the family

The suffering, the dying, the pain and the tears of this place make us dumb. Remembering, shared mourning and our will to be together - that is our hope, that is our path

Demoscopy cannot replace political action

I can say to the Germans in the GDR what Prime Minister de Maizière also emphasized: nobody will be worse off than before - but many will be better off

Today, the German Bundestag, together with the People's Chamber of the GDR, sends an unmistakable message to Poland: Poland's border with Germany, as it runs today, is final

The wind of the zeitgeist blows here today and there tomorrow. And whoever follows it will be blown away by the wind

I am the CDU

The Germans should sing more

The demand for a 35-hour week is absurd and stupid. It is foolish to think that we can live better if we work and achieve less

The landscapes in the east should - it's the right picture - blossom

The new poverty is an invention of the socialist jet set

He is a modern day communist leader who is good at public relations. Goebbels was also an expert in Public Relations

There will not be a Schröder era

Eating and drinking - that stands for joy in life

If we fail to save the forests, the world we live in would be unrecognizable

Secretary General Gorbachev and I agree that it is the sole right of the German people to decide whether they want to live together in one state

Stressed faces - that's a socialist signal

Home is not an old-fashioned term and certainly not a plea for mental narrowness