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The British claim to have a special relationship with the U.S., but if you mention this in Washington, no one knows what you are talking about.

From Helmut Schmidt

Americans tend to feel satisfied within the wide boundaries of that huge, big country.

From Helmut Schmidt

Farmers are always conservative. They stick to what they have learned from their fathers and from their grandfathers. This is the same all over the globe.

From Helmut Schmidt

Democracy is not the end point of mankind. There may be developments in many different directions in the coming centuries. Democracy has only existed for about 200 years. It started out with the American Declaration of Independence. The Americans got their ideas from the Europeans, in the main from the French, the Dutch and the British.

From Helmut Schmidt

Particularly since the computerization of the world, the impact of media has grown enormously. The printed books and the printed media have become less important. Why should somebody read Laozi or Confucius if he can Google?

From Helmut Schmidt

If I ever had to emigrate, I would probably go to America.

From Helmut Schmidt

Germany is one of the medium powers of the world. It is a non-nuclear power. It is in a lower class than the United States, the Soviet Union, France, the United Kingdom and others.

From Helmut Schmidt

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take many small steps.

From Helmut Schmidt

The German public knows me quite well. I have been in their kitchens and living rooms for years.

From Helmut Schmidt

In a mass television democracy - which all of us nowadays have - it is impossible to take basic political decisions with long-term consequences without the public knowing it, without the public understanding at least some of it, without the public forming its judgment, heterogeneous as it may be.

From Helmut Schmidt

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