Helmut Kohl famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Helmut Kohl

#Europe #Goal #Unity
George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity.
-- Helmut Kohl

#Unity #Important #Allies
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.
-- Helmut Kohl

#Country #Past #Europe
Everybody should know that Germany will not go it alone: there will be no restless Reich.
-- Helmut Kohl

#Germany #Restless #Should
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.
-- Helmut Kohl

#War #Father #Years
Simon Wiesenthal, like few others personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality.
-- Helmut Kohl

#Shadow #Brutality
I have been underestimated for decades. I've done very well that way.
-- Helmut Kohl

#Done #Politics #Way
Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so.
-- Helmut Kohl

#Russia #Important #Germany
Peace must be more than the absence of war.
-- Helmut Kohl

#War #Absence
We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.
-- Helmut Kohl

#Sympathy #People #Political
The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation.
-- Helmut Kohl

#Christian #Poor #Made

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