I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as well.
In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.
I hope I won't become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don't really know comic books all that well.
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.
In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.
Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.
What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.
I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.
The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.
Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.
Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.
To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
My feeling is that it's a misreading of history to say that, as the Reagan supporters do, that Reagan won the Cold War.
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.
From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.
My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.
It's incredible in our sport how small the differences are, and we are all aware of that. We're all on a high level and skiing well, and at the end, it's just hundredths that count. Maybe it's just one finger or a hand can change the color of a medal...
