"I am a Junker, and I will remain one."

"The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past."

"The art of statesmanship is to steer a course through the rapids, not to create them."

"Politics is the science of the possible."

"The whole of Europe today is a powder keg and the leaders are like men smoking in an arsenal... A single spark will set off an explosion that will consume us all."