"Q&A: Tracey Ullman" http://www.newsweek.com/newsmakers-127011 (Newsweek, 19 September 2004)
“Berlin is the testicle of the West. When I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.”
Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Aug. 24, 1963, speech in Yugoslavia[citation needed]
Willy Brandt (1913–1992) German social-democratic politician; Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
[...] ich habe es noch in diesem Sommer erneut zu Papier gebracht: Berlin wird leben, und die Mauer wird fallen. <br class="br">speech at the Rathaus Schöneberg in Berlin on 10 November 1989, hdg.de/lemo http://www.hdg.de/lemo/html/dokumente/DieDeutscheEinheit_redeBrandt1989/index.html
John Foster Dulles (1888–1959) United States Secretary of State
Quoted in "1959 Year In Review: Death of John Foster Dulles," http://www.upi.com/Audio/Year_in_Review/Events-of-1959/Death-of-John-Foster-Dulles/12295509433704-3/ UPI.com (1959).
Enoch Powell (1912–1998) British politician
Attacking the Labour President of the Board of Trade, Douglas Jay, who wanted to standardise packaging for detergents. (The Daily Telegraph 29 April 1967); from Simon Heffer, Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell (Phoenix, 1999), p. 430
1960s
P. W. Botha (1916–2006) South African prime minister
To a Voice of America journalist in Berlin during a European tour, 3 September 1984, as cited in Venture into the Exterior: Through Europe With P.W. Botha, John Scott, 1984
Joseph E. Stiglitz (1943) American economist and professor, born 1943.
Interview with Nathan Gardels, The Huffington Post, September 16th 2008 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-gardels/stiglitz-the-fall-of-wall_b_126911.html?show_comment_id=15934161
“The Berlin wall can disappear when those conditions that created it fall away.”
Mikhail Gorbachev (1931) General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
As quoted in The New York Times (16 June 1989) https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/16/world/a-gorbachev-hint-for-berlin-wall.html <br class="br">1980s
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) German painter, sculptor, engraver and printmaker
quote in a letter to Louise Schiefler, from Berlin, 5 November 1911; as quoted in Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Grosstad, Eros und Natur, aus der verborgenen Sammlungen der Region, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst Germany, 2005, pp. 113-114
about the move of Die Brücke artists from Dresden to Berlin, Kirchner was optimistic in the beginning
1905 - 1915
Clement Freud (1924–2009) English broadcaster, writer, politician and chef
Some questions of interpretation
