The most important rule of the new Europe is: There must never again be violence in Europe. Helmut Kohl More Quotes by Helmut Kohl More Quotes From Helmut Kohl I like everything that makes you fat. Helmut Kohl fat everything like you We humans have an abyss inside us. The more power people have, the greater the danger. Helmut Kohl inside more power people I have been underestimated for decades. I have done very well that way. Helmut Kohl well been done way If a Chancellor is trying to push something through, he must be a man of power. And if he's smart, he knows when the time is ripe. In one case - the euro - I was like a dictator... The euro is a synonym for Europe. Helmut Kohl man smart power time Political life is like this - elections go back and forth. Representative democracy can only be successful if one sits down and says, 'That's it. I will connect myself,' - as I did - 'connect my existence to a political project.' Then you automatically have in your party a lot of people who say, 'If that fails, so do I'. Helmut Kohl myself you democracy life My childhood ended in 1942. I was 12, and for the next three years, I lived under incessant bombings. It was a life of constant fear. Helmut Kohl childhood three fear life I don't want to give myself grades. I will leave evaluation of my achievements to history. Helmut Kohl will myself grades history I experienced Nazism as a child. Like many of my generation, I was motivated by the desire to prevent another war at any price. Helmut Kohl generation child desire war People in Tel Aviv can not imagine, but in 1990, here in Leipzig or Dresden, whoever wanted to buy a car had to wait 14 years. The East Germans worked like people in the West, but the fruits of their labor were harvested by a criminal regime. Helmut Kohl wait like car people Gorbachev's legacy is that he called time on communism, partially against his will, but in fact, he finished it off. Without violence. Without bloodshed. Beyond that, I am struggling to think of much else in terms of real legacy. Helmut Kohl i-am legacy violence time Europe has, to put it mildly, been in a poor state since the transition to the 21st century. This is down to national issues, European missteps, and an economic and financial crisis that crashed down on us with enough force to dislodge the essential European idea. Helmut Kohl down force poor enough
