The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
I am not the German Tony Blair. Nor am I the German Bill Clinton. I am Gerhard Schroeder, chancellor of Germany, responsible for Germany. I don't want to be a copy of anyone.
I want to see religious instruction and sermons held in German in the mosques. The ideal, in my view, would be for imams to be trained in Germany and to speak our language, just as the Roman Catholic Church now holds mass in German and gave up Latin long ago.
The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
Every German child learns to speak English in school.
German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.
When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another one was half-Mexican, half-black. Another one was from Colombia. Another one was born in the U. S. , but his mom was from Germany and spoke with a German accent. So we all had multiple identities.
As the cancellation of the German Grand Prix indicates, Germany is a terrible market for Formula One.
If I am right the Germans will say I was a German, and the French will say I was a Jew; If I am wrong the Germans will say I was a Jew and the French will say I was a German.
German? I don't know what that means. . . we don't say that in America
It could be Fascist, religious or political - it's always the same model that operates in these circumstances, and it's that which is the actuality of this film. Therefore, it's not specifically an explanation of German Fascism because that would be an impossible thing to do in any case.
If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.
The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.
It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.
I still have nightmares about holding German sausages over my head.
George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity.
I'm German but I didn't say that. I have no moustache