Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom. – 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
I am convinced we shall succeed. I have faith in this country, because I have faith in its people. – Horst Koehler
I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card. – Charles Baudelaire