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Helmut Josef Michael Kohl (3 April 1930 – 16 June 2017) was a German statesman and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 (of West Germany, 1982–1990; and of reunified Germany, 1990–1998) and as chairman of the CDU from 1973 to 1998. Kohl's 16-year tenure is the longest of any German Chancellor since Otto von Bismarck, and oversaw the end of the Cold War, the German reunification and the creation of the European Union.
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As long as there is a wall, barbed wire and orders to shoot, there can be no talk of normality in Germany.
This is a typical journalistic statement: It is correct, but it is not the truth.
The means of existence of our country will break down, once the watergates are open to the foreigners.
A successful industrial nation, meaning a nation with future, can not be organized as a collective holiday resort.
We will cut in half unemployment and the number of foreigners living in Germany.
Revenue and cost have to be in the right relation to each other.
The new poverty is an invention of the socialist Jet-set.
In all future, only peace may come from German soil.
We will move to Berlin - but not to a new republic.
The Berlin Wall is perhaps the most visible expression of the moral gulf between free democracy and totalitarian dictatorship.
I am not the one trying to speed things up. We are being driven.
The German Reunification and unification of Europe are two sides of the same coin.
The crucial thing is what comes out at the end.
The visionaries of yesterday are the realists of today.
Discussion with his predecessor Helmut Schmidt in 'Die Zeit (1998)
We Germans have learned from history. We are a peace-loving, freedom-loving people. For us, love of our native country, love of freedom, and the spirit of being a good neighbor always belong together.
This is the worst president since Hermann Göring.
The young people of Germany have no problem with Judaism. I too, with my two sons sometimes walk across the Jewish cemetery in Oggersheim.
By a common effort, we will soon succeed in tranforming Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Sachsen-Anhalt, Brandenburg, Sachsen and Thüringen into blossoming landscapes, where it is worth to live and work.
General Secretary Gorbachev’s policy of restructuring brings with it, for the first time since the end of World War II, a justifiable hope of overcoming the East-West conflict.
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