“He did away with this fiction of the European interest being the same as the German interest. You can talk about national interest in a much more relaxed way today. The time was ripe for this and he acknowledged it. ... Schröder and Joschka Fischer, his Green foreign minister, deserve credit for giving Germany a more 'normal' foreign policy.”
Charles Grant
“If the French were German in their essence, then how the Germans would admire them!”
Franz Kafka
“I think any boycott is wrong, ... Boycotts were exactly what the Germans were doing against the Jews.”
Woody Allen
“The large German banks now seem to be more interested in competing with Anglo-Saxon banks in international markets than in nurturing their long-standing domestic lending business.”
Stephen Lewis
“I do recall that, out in Aurora, there had been a small corps of German and Central European immigrants who had their own league out there. There may have been pockets of other activity, but in central Denver, there was no other activity.”
Derek Moore
“Anyone who wants to defend the European social model must ensure that the German-French relationship remains intact.”
Gerhard Schroeder
“I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.”
Mark Twain
