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Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (23 December 1918 – 10 November 2015) was a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), who served as Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) from 1974 to 1982.
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The more direct decisions by all the people, all the more ungovernable is the country!
Do we want also to be world champion in moaning?
Of course, nuclear power has its risks. But there is no power and nothing in the world without risks, not even love.
The rule of law does not have to win, it does not have to lose, but it has to exist!
The multicultural society is an illusion of intellectuals.
The snail's pace is the normal pace of any democracy.
Whoever has visions should go to the doctor.
Science and future, that is a contradiction.
It seems to me that the German people can - pointedly - tolerate 5 percent price increase better than 5 percent unemployment.
If we continue on for decades as before, then I have to be pessimistic about our country.
If you look closely, you'll see that the political journalists actually more belong to the political class and less to journalism.
Nothing is more important than pastoral care for people in need. [...] For me, nothing is less important than theology.
One is left, the other is right. But comparable populists are Lafontaine and Le Pen already.
Today, the most important is to learn to understand other people. And not only their music, but also their philosophy, their attitude, their behavior. Only then will nations can get along with each other.
Helmut Schmidt continues to speak of a sense of duty, predictability, feasibility, firmness [...] These are secondary virtues. Simply put precise:.. So you can also run a concentration camp with them.
What troubles me is that we will see in Germany no approximation of the East German income to the West German income anymore, because productivity stays so far behind.
In the basic questions, one have to be naive. And I think that the problems of the world and of humanity cannot be solved without idealism. However, I also believe that one should be realistic and pragmatic at the same time.
It is an irony of history that the public sector union, my union, in which I am a member for over 50 years, that imagines that the public service should be the pacemaker in the wage increase. One must be crazy.
I think that the idea that a modern society would be able to establish itself as a multicultural society, with as many cultural groups as possible is absurd. One cannot make out of Germany with at least a thousand years of history since Otto I subsequently make a crucible.
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