Helmut Kohl quotes:

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I have been underestimated for decades. I've done very well that way.

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

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

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.

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.