I Have Great Respect For Press Freedoms.

Overcoming The Cold War Required Courage From The People Of Central And Eastern Europe And What Was Then The German Democratic Republic, But It Also Required The Steadfastness Of Western Partner Over Many Decades When Many Had Long Lost Hope Of Integration Of The Two Germanys And Europe.

Our Relationship With The United States Is Not Reduced To Questions Of Fighting Terrorism And The Iraq War. German-american Relations Were So Good For So Many Years Because They Extended Deeply Into The Normal Lives Of People.

That Makes Me Think Of The 2002 World Cup Final Above All Else. Nobody Thought At The Time That Our Team Would Get Through To The Final Against Brazil. We Should Remember That This Summer.

We Cannot Stand Alone. With 80 Million People In This World Of Today, You Cannot, When You Just Stand On Your Own, Achieve Much Even Though You May Be Economically Strong.

If It's In The German Interest To Have Good Trans-atlantic Relations, Well, The Task Is Also To Look Ahead, But Our Personal - That We Have Freedom Of Movement In The Whole Of Germany So If We Want To See Each Other, Well, I'm Game.