You can't just sing the song and live another life.
There are no working hours for leaders.
I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus.
There are no office hours for leaders.
A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.
Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.
A critic is a man who expects miracles.
O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.
I just want to say something. 655,000 Iraqi civilians are dead. Who are the terrorists?
The problem is, if at all, in the different view of the economy, of economic growth. Growth is too low, even for us. That needs to change: More investments, a stronger role by the European Central Bank. Otherwise, there are no tensions between Italy and Germany. But on this point, compromises must be reached and we will reach them.
The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.