You could be right actually (you probably are). I tried looking into it before to understand the context, and I couldn't find anything. But the context your pro

You could be right actually (you probably are). I tried looking into it before to understand the context, and I couldn't find anything. But the context your provide does sound more like Mr. Habeck, as opposed to him arguing that the state is always right. So I do accept this misquote and take it back. My _experience_ however living in Europe is that the state actors behave like the State is right, and that the state actors are greater than the individuals. This would seem to be most true in east Germany.