Quotes from Kati Marton

In her experience, language cannot be trusted. Words are weapons to be deployed cautiously.

Bureaucrats do not, as a whole, like to make decisions. Decisions require a degree of courage and responsibility, qualities in short supply among public servants on both sides of the Great Divide.

This is her power move: letting an alpha male keep talking and waiting patiently as he self-destructs.

A woman in power has more urgent business to attend to than her ego.

Never hate your enemies; it affects your judgment.

In Paris, I felt connected to history in a way I did not in America. Elderly men I passed in the Latin Quarter, with empty sleeves pinned to the shoulder of their jackets, reminded me of the not-so-distant war.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. Thomas Mann, German-American author (1875–1955)

There is strength in calm").

You are only able to love in the first place if you love yourself, if you believe in yourself, if you know yourself. Only then can you approach the other.… Love can only come if you are clear about who you are.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." —Marie Curie (1867–1934)

each week, before they dealt the cards, my father presented his typed report on himself and my mother to Marika, who copied it in her hand, then burned the original.

Be self-confident. Don't let others take the bread

If everyone just sweeps outside their door, the whole village will be clean," Merkel said sometimes, quoting Goethe.

Wir schaffen das

Cities tend to reflect the character of their residents. Budapest is a dramatic, theatrical kind of place. More than anything else it resembles a stage set.

With statistics, graphs, and charts, the country's highest-ranking soccer fan proposed a training plan for the speechless coach.

This also serves as a clever way of neutralizing potential opponents. "Angela is very skilled at appropriating any issue as soon as it gains traction," said Gauck.

Not only in private, but in politics, too.

women enrich life.

It's the ones who don't tell you they are informing," he said, "that you have to worry about.

The riddle that was making the rounds was: "What is the difference between Hitler and Chamberlain? Answer: Chamberlain takes his weekend in the country. Hitler takes his country in the weekend.

The Soviet state, like any other giant enterprise, is, above all, a bureaucracy. Bureaucrats do not, as a whole, like to make decisions. Decisions require a degree of courage and responsibility, qualities in short supply among public servants on both sides of the Great Divide.

She says her only wish is to get out of this country, where there is no life, no freedom. 'They have killed off beauty, and art, and literature and all that is beautiful and good in life. Press freedom? This is what they call press freedom! If someone has the courage to write things as they are, prison is the result, ' she says.

Hatred is not a crime.