“The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also ...” — Joschka Fischer Quote

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.

We are ready to train new Iraqi forces outside Iraq. We did it in Abu Dhabi.

We will not send troops. Germany is not committed to Iraq - we will not commit ourselves with troops.

India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.

The United States is our most important ally. They helped us many times. Without the United States, the unification or German democratisation after the Nazi period would have been much more complicated, or almost impossible.

Many of us are inspired and are eager to get things done. But once too many people are involved, life becomes complicated. We are all social beings, so we have an innate urge to incorporate everyone's thoughts.

All of my work has been about ideas of utopia and dystopia. I think that's what gives America interest. It's many things all at once. It's such a complicated society.

Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.

I'm very interested in what makes people tick; people are so weird and complicated.