The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
A government must not waiver once it has chosen it’s course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.