Germany Quotes - Page 40

• Every match in the Euro is a dance on a razor's edge.

  Otto Rehhagel

  Razors, Euro, Edges

  4 Copy quote

• It is great that soccer can unite people for one day. It is something politics has often tried, and we were able to do it today. All people became brothers.

  Otto Rehhagel

  Soccer, Brother, People

  7 Copy quote

• When I arrived the players were talented, but did not obey the rules... Once they understood what they needed to, they could express themselves.

  Otto Rehhagel

  Player, Needed, Understood

  4 Copy quote

• We bought good footballers. But many haven't got it, that football is a running and fighting sport. Against Bayern every team outdoes itself. And we do too little to counter that... We need a couple of attack dogs. Sometimes I sit on the bench and think, 'Man, is this a friendly match?'

  Otto Rehhagel

  Sports, Football, Running

  4 Copy quote

• A football team is really a big family. There's a give and take... but a few are working for their name only. They go the whole week trying to figure out who said something, what they said and where it happened instead of showing that they're big men.

  Otto Rehhagel

  Football, Team, Men

  6 Copy quote

• Every person in this country who has the desire and ability should be able to get all the education they need regardless of the income of their family. This is not a radical idea. In Germany, Scandinavia and many other countries, higher education is either free or very inexpensive. We must do the same.

  Bernie Sanders

  Education, Country, College

  12 Copy quote

• In Germany, college tuition is free. In America, college tuition is increasingly unaffordable. In a highly competitive global economy, which country do you think will have the best educated work force and a competitive advantage? We must make tuition free in public colleges and universities and substantially reduce interest rates on student loans.

  Bernie Sanders

  Education, Country, College

  8 Copy quote

• How can the United States be competitive globally if higher education is unaffordable? Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Scotland and Sweden have no tuition for college. Other countries have low tuition. We need the best educated workforce in the world. Instead of spending endless amounts on the military, we need to invest in our young people.

  Bernie Sanders

  Education, Country, Military

  10 Copy quote

• But, as environment minister, I am very interested in a thriving German automobile industry, because I can only pay for the rising costs of environmental protection at home and abroad if there are people in Germany with jobs and who pay taxes.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Jobs, Home, People

  16 Copy quote

• Finding the right form of debate regarding Israeli policies will remain a challenge in Germany. Even with every conceivable and warranted criticism, the danger always arises that it will be exploited by those who consciously or unconsciously present anti-Semitism in a new guise.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Challenges, Criticism, Debate

  6 Copy quote

• We, the Social Democrats, are convinced that capitalism needs to be tamed a second time. The first time we achieved that in Germany for many decades with the social market economy. That is no longer enough. Now we need to do it in Europe and even globally.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Europe, Needs, Firsts

  53 Copy quote

• In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.

  Rachel Johnson

  Ham, Salad, Mayonnaise

  8 Copy quote

• Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago?

  Horst Kohler

  Believe, Fate, Years

  4 Copy quote

• I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country.

  Navid Negahban

  Country, Iran, Turkeys

  "Navid Negahban: A Back Stage Exclusive". Interview with Noah Laracy, www.backstage.com. November 25, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• No gassing took place in any camp on Germany soil.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Soil, Jew, Camps

  19 Copy quote

• 2.2 billion worth of military equipment had been stripped from U.S. Forces in West Germany and America and shipped to Israel in an unprecedented day and night airlift.

  George Scratchley Brown

  Military, Night, Israel

  4 Copy quote

• The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany.

  Friedrich List

  Mother, Children, Return

  24 Copy quote

• A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany.

  Johannes Rau

  Rights, Years, People

  7 Copy quote

• Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered.

  Gustav Stresemann

  War, Loss, Territory

  8 Copy quote

• Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Greatness, Shapes, Faults

  19 Copy quote

• Seeking fortunes in America led to Germany losing people, and the American continent received many people whose contributions are particularly clear in the agricultural and technical fields.

  Julius Streicher

  Agriculture, America, People

  "Der Stürmer" Newspaper, 1944.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Who's to say what's right or wrong? The courts and the society can be totally wrong. Nazi Germany, what did they say was the right thing to do? To destroy and burn Jews.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Humanity, Nazi

  4 Copy quote

• It's financially advantageous to make a picture in Berlin, Germany. They have a very effective rebate system.

  Joel Silver

  Berlin

  "Producer Joel Silver Exclusive Interview: Discusses Unknown, Logan’s Run, Berlin, Vod, Home Video Sales, 3d, and a Lot More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 17, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Giving, Doe, Great Performance

  "Star-Spangled Baton?" by Leonard Slatkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.

  Natan Sharansky

  Latin, Russia, Japan

  16 Copy quote