The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation.

- Helmut Kohl

You didn't just pay lip service to the goal of overcoming the division of Europe and Germany... Rather, you put yourself at the forefront of those wh…

- Helmut Kohl

The future will belong to the Germans... ...when we build the House of Europe. In the next two years, we will make the process of European integratio…

- Helmut Kohl

Everybody should know that Germany will not go it alone: there will be no restless Reich.

- Helmut Kohl

I have been underestimated for decades. I've done very well that way.

- Helmut Kohl

Simon Wiesenthal, like few others personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality.

- Helmut Kohl

I doubt that the evil spirits of the past, under which we in Europe have already suffered more than enough this century, have been banished for ever.

- Helmut Kohl

The European Union Treaty... within a few years will lead to the creation of what the founding fathers of modern Europe dreamed of after the war, the…

- Helmut Kohl

We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.

- Helmut Kohl