“A successful industrial nation, meaning a nation with future, can not be organized as a collective holiday resort.”

—  Helmut Kohl

Eine erfolgreiche Industrienation, das heißt eine Nation mit Zukunft, lässt sich nicht als kollektiver Freizeitpark organisieren.
In a parliamentary speech (March 1993)

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