Quotes
- "I have only ever been interested in ‘’Deutschlandpolitik’’. I didn’t become a Social Democrat in order to socialize banks. No, I became a Social Democrat because I was of the opinion that Adenauer did not really mean it, and that Schumacher really did mean it. I was always certain that Reunification would finally be achieved. I never lost that conviction."
- "Through all that has happened, I have all that I wanted. The decisive point in the change of mentality was that Wall. We determined in 1961 that everybody was content, that nobody wanted to change the status quo. Nobody was going to help us simply to make holes in it or to make it permeable . So it began. And since one could not get travel visas Bonn or America or Moscow, one had to negotiate with those who were authorized to give them out."
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