I am convinced we shall succeed. I have faith in this country, because I have faith in its people. – Horst Koehler
Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic. – Horst Koehler
Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom. – Horst Koehler
And there is monologue disguised as dialogue, in which two or more men, meeting in space, speak each with himself in strangely tortuous and circuitous ways and yet imagine they have escaped the torment of being thrown back on their own resources. – Martin Buber (1878—1965), translated from German