"On some matters I cannot change my position. I refuse to sacrifice my Communist beliefs to the fashion of the day. I …"

"Sure, I hear about the new freedom that people are enjoying in Eastern Europe. But how do you define freedom? Million…"

"Maybe not every detail of what the Stasi did was correct, but you can say that about any secret service. Their job is…"

"I don't think the collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe means that there will not be other attempts to do what we d…"

"I deplore the fact that East Germans were shot while trying to flee westward, but the Berlin wall served a useful pur…"

"Heinz Kessler, a former East German defense minister who was later convicted of incitement to manslaughter for uphold…"

"Um zu siegen, müssen wir versuchen, an der Stelle des Zusammenstoßes die Stärkeren zu sein. Dazu haben wir aber nur A…"

"Der Angriff gegen die Flanke ist der wesentlichste Inhalt der ganzen Kriegsgeschichte."

"A man is born, and not made, a strategist."

"The principles of strategy remain unchanged. The enemy's front is not the objective. The essential thing is to crush …"