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“The builders of our capital are fully engaged in residential construction, and its labor force is deployed for that. Nobody has the intention to erect a wall.”

Walter Ulbricht

15 June 1961 at a press conference in East Berlin. Less than two months later construction began.

“Is it truely the case that we have to copy every dirt that comes from the west? I think, comrades, with the monotonism of the yeah yeah yeah and how that all is called should we make a stop.”

Walter Ulbricht

Ist es denn wirklich so, dass wir jeden Dreck, der vom Westen kommt, nu kopieren müssen? Ich denke, Genossen, mit der Monotonie des Je-Je-Je, und wie das alles heißt, ja, sollte man doch Schluss machen.
In 1965 at the 11. congress of the central comitee of the SED refering to the "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" of the Beatles and against the Rockmusic from the west in general http://home.arcor.de/a3b4v5/intro.mp3

“It has to look democratic, but we must have everything in [our] hand.”

Walter Ulbricht

Es muss demokratisch aussehen, aber wir müssen alles in der Hand haben.
1945, in: Wolfgang Leonhard: Child of the revolution. Transl. by C. M. Woodhouse. London (Collins) 1957. Brandenburgische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung (archiviert bei archive.org) https://web.archive.org/web/20110111220208/http://www.politische-bildung-brandenburg.de/demokratie/themen/spielregeln/realpolitik.htm (Brandenburg State Institution for Political Education)