Helmut Schmidt Quotes

The biggest room in the world is room for improvement.

If you look closely, you'll see that the political journalists actually more belong to the political class and less to journalism.

One is left, the other is right. But comparable populists are Lafontaine and Le Pen already.

Of course, nuclear power has its risks. But there is no power and nothing in the world without risks, not even love.

[Intelligence services] are poor pigs suffering from two mental illnesses: The one disease is because they never get public recognition for what they actually do. This is inevitable, as they have to work in secret. This deformes the soul. The other disease bases on the fact that they have the tendency to believe they understood the national interests of their own country much better than their own government. This latter disease is the reason that I do not trust them.

The rule of law does not have to win, it does not have to lose, but it has to exist!

Nothing is more important than pastoral care for people in need. [...] For me, nothing is less important than theology.

If we continue on for decades as before, then I have to be pessimistic about our country.

With a democratic society, the concept of multiculturalism is difficult to reconcile. Maybe in a very long term. But if you ask, where multicultural societies have so far worked, you can get very quickly to the conclusion that they only work there peacefully where there is a strong authoritarian state there. So, it was a mistake that we picked up at the beginning of the 60's guest workers from foreign cultures into the country.