If I were a German today, I would be proud, proud but also worried. I would be proud of the magnificent achievement of rebuilding my country, entrenching democracy and assuming the undoubtedly preponderant position in Europe. But a united Germany can't and won't subordinate its national interests in economic or in foreign policy to those of the Community indefinitely. Germany's new pre-eminence is a fact - and its power is a problem - as much for Germans as for the rest of Europe.
Let us, then, draw together in the name, not of jingoism, but of justice
If there is one instance in which a foreign policy I pursued met with unambiguous failure, it was my policy on German reunification.
Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.
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