Günter Nooke is a German CDU politician and a former civil rights activist.
“It was not a vote for Hohmann or against Merkel - it was a vote for an open society.”
BBC (UK Version), November 14, 2003: "CDU red-faced over 'anti-Semitism' row"
During the Hohmann crisis - voting for the expulsion, but saying the No votes represented a kick-back against "political correctness"
The Christian Science Monitor, April 10, 2000: "Embattled German conservatives try 'girl' power"
On the fact, that Merkel was the first to break with Helmut Kohl publicly.
New York Times, October 1, 2003: "Artifacts of Überkitsch Evoke Old East Germany; High and Low Culture Offer Powerful Reminders"
To German journalists, on so-called Ostalgie revival television shows
“An interim candidate would not make a radical change.”
International Herald Tribune, March 7, 2000: "2 Kohl Party Contenders Have Strong Ties to Ex-Communist Region : German Politics Opens Up to the East"
On Angela Merkel's chance for Chancellorship
Sie haben Diktatur nicht erlebt, Frau Roth! Wenn sich alle einig sind, bedeutet das noch nicht, dass alle Recht haben!
In response to Claudia Roth, plenary session of German Parliament (Bundestag), June 17, 2004, on Controversial Memorial Concept remembering the victims of the 20th century's two totalitarian regimes
