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"I can say to the German people that the United States has been good for Germany. Has looked out for Germany. Has provided security for Germany. Has helped rebuilt Germany. And unify Germany."
"If you want a model for what is possible, if you want to see how to build a peaceful and prosperous and dynamic society, then look at Berlin and look at Germany."
"The United States was proud to stand with the people of Germany as this nation and this continent reunited and rebuilt and reached for a better future."
"It used to be that I could talk to someone in Texas and nobody would hear about it. Now, the moment I open my mouth it's all over the world. The second I say something, guys in Germany know about it. It's basically a wonderful thing because more information is spread, but you have to keep your mouth shut."
"I think that France, Germany, Spain, Holland and England will join Brazil in the semi-finals."
"The Welfare State, which begun in Imperial Germany for the truly indigent and disabled, has now become "everybody's entitlement" and an increasing burden on those who produce."
"If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul."
"The word communist, of course, has become a rallying cry for certain people here just as the word Jew was in Hitler's Germany, a way of arousing emotion without engendering thought."
"One of the key problems is that the Germans know what they do because everywhere they go there's a 'made in Germany' label on it - they can feel proud of Volkswagens and Audis and Mercedes."
"You will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the other United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces."
"I would gladly say 'Heil Hitler!' and at once part company with him, realizing what a pitiable insult it is to such a great man to try to flatter him with such an imitation which he has always disdained. His way is for Germany, ours is for Britain; let us tread our paths with mutual respect, which is rarely increased by borrowing."
"Germany calling! Germany Calling!"
"Germany is a capitalist state nurtured carefully and brought back to prosperity by the United States, and it is very loyal to the United States. I don't even think the Germans enjoy full sovereignty. There are some things which they cannot do if the United States doesn't wish them to do it."
"I think to compare Germany to the Third Reich is utterly ludicrous."
"I met The Beatles while we were playing in Germany. We'd seen them in Liverpool, but they were a nothing little band then, just putting it together. In fact, they weren't really a band at all."
"Brazil and Germany are very similar, but in Brazil we have a much longer career. There are much more books that have been published just there."
"If Britain wins wholly, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and perhaps even Bolshevik Russia will disappear."
"If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived."
"The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction"
"There are more than a few people, especially among the cultural élite, who still publicly regret the fact that Germany sent Einstein packing, without realizing that it was a much greater crime to kill little Hans Cohn from around the corner, even though he was no genius."
