Claudia Roth Professions : German Politician Born : May 15, 1955 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Claudia Roth By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a less respectable novelist among the irrefutably enduring writers of our time than Ayn Rand: philosopher queen of the best-seller lists in the forties and fifties, cult phenomenon and nationally declared threat to public morality in the sixties, guru to the Libertarians and to White House economic policy in the seventies, and a continuing exemplar or Wilde's tragic observation that more than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read. Claudia Roth queens white house We, the Greens, should thank our former foreign minister Joschka Fischer for bringing something hideous and shameful to light - that Nazi ideas were fully adopted by white-collar workers in the Foreign Ministry. Joschka Fischer stood up to criticism that he would foul his own nest, and with his order to start the historical commission he made it clear that the ministry's pride in itself, as a haven of resistance to Hitler, was no longer acceptable. Claudia Roth historical pride criticism Every ministry should investigate its own role during the Nazi era. That applies to institutions like the health or economy ministries, where, as yet, no investigations have been made. Claudia Roth nazi economy Similar Authors Andre Brie german-politician August Bebel german-politician Heinrich August Winkler german-politician Gustav Stresemann german-politician Gustav Radbruch german-politician Gunther Oettinger german-politician All Authors
