Joschka Fischer

“Mit Verlaub, Herr Präsident, Sie sind ein Arschloch.”

“The European Union is a work in progress, not a finished project.”

“America is our most important partner, but not our only one.”

“A Europe that is not social will not be accepted by its citizens.”

“A state of half-sovereignty is not a state.”

“You cannot build a common foreign and security policy on the lowest common denominator.”

“I have not changed; I have learned.”

“The stone-throwing and the molotov cocktails are not arguments. They are criminal acts.”

“We have to get out of the rat race of talking about what we're against.”

“Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.”

“I am not convinced that we are in a new Cold War. But we are in a period of great uncertainty.”