Helmut Schmidt
Helmut Schmidt
Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidtwas a German statesman and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, who served as Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1974 to 1982...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth23 December 1918
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After having known all the top Chinese statesmen from Mao Zedong onwards, I am quite confident that also the present leadership is convinced of this necessity,
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I am confident that China will continue its prudent and cautious exchange-rate-policy,
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On this point I am of exactly the same mind as Ms Merkel.
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Politicians and journalists share the same fate in that they often understand tomorrow the things they talk about today.
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I have talked about the deterioration of the atmosphere between Washington and Moscow. It was quite clear that in the year 1980, which at the same time was an election year in America, these negotiations would not go very far, but immediately after the start of the Reagan administration we in Bonn started to try influencing them on the medium-range nuclear weapons negotiations, and we told them that in our view the best outcome would be zero-zero, zero on either side.