German - Politician | April 3, 1930 - June 16, 2017
I knew that I could never win a referendum in Germany. We would have lost a referendum on the introduction of the euro. That's quite clear. I would have lost, and by seven to three.
Helmut Kohl
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When people come to write about my period of office, I would be very happy if they say that I made a contribution to finding the happy medium again for the Germans.
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Nations with a common currency never went to war against each other. A common currency is more than the money you pay with.
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Germany is our fatherland; Europe is our future.
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In a democracy, if you don't get the votes, nothing else is possible, no matter how wonderful your dreams.
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My parents were Christians - Catholics, but not in the close-minded sense. I remember my mother to be a very pious woman, but she was never against other religions.
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As a child, I personally didn't really get to know any Jews. I was eight years old when the Night of Broken Glass happened. And Ludwigshafen was purely a workers' city, so we didn't have a very big Jewish community. What I did know about the Jews, I heard from my mother. My mother was very much pro-Jewish.
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If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can deduce that one has no leadership or interest in shaping events.
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Isolated decisions, however well-founded they might seem to the individual, and national go-it-alone moves must belong to the past. They should not be the 21st-century method of choice, particularly because the consequences of the European community's actions must often be carried collectively.
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I like everything that makes you fat.
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Solitary decisions, no matter how well-founded they may appear to individuals, must belong to the past - along with national, unilateralist action.
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We Germans have learned from history. We are a peace-loving, freedom-loving people. There is only one place for us in the world: at the side of the free nations.
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