Helmut Kohl Quotes

• Peace must be more than the absence of war.

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• The policy of European integration is in reality a question of war and peace in the 21st century.

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• 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 who encouraged us on the way to unity.

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

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

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• The army is under orders to defend every place.

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

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

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• George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity.

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• For me it is completely clear that our air bases in Germany would be available to the Americans.

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Birth:	3rd April, 1930
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Politician

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Helmut Josef Michael Kohl was born in Ludwigshafen, Germany. He is a German statesman, who served as Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 and as the chairman of the Christian Democratic Union from 1973 to 1998. From 1969 to 1976, he was the 3rd Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate. In 1958, he received his doctorate degree for his thesis "The Political Developments in the Palatinate and the Reconstruction of Political Parties after 1945".

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