Friday, June 16, 2017

RIP Helmut Kohl

I am not the one trying to speed things up.  We are being driven.

-- German chancellor Helmut Kohl (3 April 1930 - 16 June 2017), shortly after the 1989 fall of the Berlin wall, when accused of pushing unification plans too fast; quoted in "The Dream of European Unity", Awake! magazine, (22 December 1991)

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