It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification.

When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the coming years? That could not happen before, since German governments planned war and conquest.

The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.

It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification.

Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.

The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.

The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.

The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be.

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.

In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.

The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.

Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.

The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.

May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany.

Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights.

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.

Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland.

The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.

When you listen to Ray Charles, there's never any doubt whose voice that is.

My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.

If youre going to kick authority in the teeth you might as well use both feet.

I was in college that first semester, and I was like, 'Wow, this isn't who I am. This isn't what I want to do.' I was like, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to go out and make something of myself, and I have no clue what that is.'

When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'

I have relentlessly beat the drum for Google's 'two-step' authentication systems for Gmail and other services, which radically reduce the likelihood that your account can be hacked from afar.

Run your purpose on the toes of your feet before people can type your success stories with the fingers of their hands.

Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.

It's incredible. Twenty-three minutes on the air, and I've got to shoot for twelve, fifteen hours a day. What the hell's that?

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!

If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.

I know Obama, I like Obama, I voted for Obama.

When I tell people I'm an Italian Jew, they're very amused by it. But obviously by blood I'm Jewish, because my mother is.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

The crowd has a way of being right.

There is so much uncertainty out there, and the government in Washington doesn't seem to get it. What's needed is a new business environment.

In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.

The real issue behind these people who are gun grabbers, the truth is - based on fact - the reason why is, they want control. They want control of the people. That's what socialism is and communism.

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.

I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked.

I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

New Jersey is to New York what Santo Domingo is to the United States. I always felt that those two landscapes, not only just the landscapes themselves but their relationships to what we would call 'a center' or 'the center of the universe,' has in some ways defined my artistic and critical vision.