It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.

My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent.

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.

In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.

I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally.

I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school.

It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.

I became Gauleiter in 1927.

As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.

The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other.

I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.

Through the Young Men's Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries.

As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.

I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933.

As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views.

The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.

The citizen parties, by an absolute majority, elected a National Socialist Government.

At that time we were very definitely told that under no circumstances should there be any secret chapters or any other secrecy in the life of the Party, but that everything should be done publicly.

I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission.

I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.

Many years before I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need.

The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.

When she became very ill with heart trouble, I saw that it would be impossible for my parents to provide for my studies, and I obtained their permission to go to sea to make a career for myself there.

I am very proud of the fact that many workers in my Gau, numerous former Communists and Social Democrats were won over by us and became local group leaders and Party functionaries.

I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.

I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.

If skating got into the Olympics, I would be tempted to hold off on shredding for a year and just skate, to make that my new goal. In that sport, I'm still the underdog.

I've heard, 'Temer is very fragile, poor little thing; he doesn't know how to govern.' Gibberish!

Veterans have had a long record of leaning towards the Republican Party. I think that's changing. I think that President Obama has the strongest record with veterans among any president in my lifetime.

I've had to replace parts in the basses when they've gotten old or worn out, so everything isn't absolutely original.

When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.

It has been the cross which has revealed to good men that their goodness has not been good enough.

Many other movies, but for me The Professionals is the best I did in Hollywood.

I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.

When the going gets tough, the prospect of delegating half your responsibilities to a willing volunteer, either to play a supporting role or take over the breadwinning, certainly holds allure.

I have to make it my job to be careful with my family.

I want the pictures to be working in both directions. I accept that they speak about me, and yet at the same time, I want and expect them to function in terms of the viewer and their experience.

When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.

A pitcher is not a ballplayer.

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.

It's definitely one of those things when you decide to be an actor that it would be really cool to be in a Broadway show or a series regular on a hit show.

The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves.

I mostly wrote 'Thursday's Child' to explore the idea of a wild child - a creature who lived much as humans used to live, when our needs were simple and our worlds were small.

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.

You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don't want to hear, 'Your kid is ugly.' But I knew the record was good and it would sell.