69 Quotes by Helmut Kohl

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

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 integration irreversible. This is a really big battle but it is worth the fight.

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 United States of Europe.

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

Russia is Germany’s most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so.

We humans have an abyss inside us. The more power people have, the greater the danger.

I don't want to give myself grades. I will leave evaluation of my achievements to history.

German and European unification are two sides of the same coin.

It was a stroke of luck that there were about four to six leaders in power in the mid-'80s who really trusted one another and could really make things happen.