We will have to accept a certain degree of legal immigration; that's globalisation... In the era of the smartphone, we cannot shut ourselves away... people know full well how we live in Europe.

If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots.

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

There is a certain degree of 'steampunkishness' that creeps into my books.

We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.