Horst Koehler

After a Polish Pope, whose country was first to be invaded by the Germans in World War Two, we now have someone from the generation drafted at the close of the war.

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

If we know where we want to go, then even a stony road is bearable.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy.