Top 269 Quotes & Sayings by Angela Merkel
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German statesman Angela Merkel.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
We need... to say to people that this is a temporary residential status, and we expect that, once there is peace in Syria again, once IS has been defeated in Iraq, that you go back to your home country with the knowledge that you have gained.
Russia has nothing: no successful politics or economy.
For me, it is always important that I go through all the possible options for a decision.
I am not an expert in this field but I do try to keep up to date with the Bundesliga. And I do follow World Cups and European Championships more closely.
Spying among friends is never acceptable.
Climate change knows no borders. It will not stop before the Pacific islands and the whole of the international community here has to shoulder a responsibility to bring about a sustainable development.
In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together.
Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.
The way I lived my life, I truly wasn't an active resistance fighter.
I believe those that produce the least emissions in autos will also be those who have the greatest success worldwide.
Solidarity and competitiveness are the two sides of a European coin.
Hatred, racism, and extremism have no place in this country.
During the course of 1989, more and more East Germans lost their fears of the state's repression and chicanery and went out on the streets. There was no turning back then. It is thanks to their courage the Wall was opened.
For somebody who comes from Europe, I can only say if we give up this principle of territorial integrity of countries, then we will not be able to maintain the peaceful order of Europe that we've been able to achieve.
In many regions, war and terror prevail. States disintegrate. For many years, we have read about this. We have heard about it. We have seen it on TV. But we had not yet sufficiently understood that what happens in Aleppo and Mosul can affect Essen or Stuttgart. We have to face that now.
I chose to pursue a career in physics because there the truth isn't so easily bent.
The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests.
I always used the free room that the G.D.R. allowed me... There was no shadow over my childhood.
I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well.
Whenever you have political conflict, such as the one that we have now between Russia and Ukraine, but also in many other conflicts around the world, it has always proved to be right to try again and again to solve such a conflict.
On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics.
I've learned that even the word 'jubilee' used in connection with the Reformation can give rise to discussions.
It's my damn duty and obligation to do everything possible for Europe to find a united path.
Multiculturalism leads to parallel societies and therefore remains a 'life lie.'
The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.
The goal of our actions is and will remain a sovereign and territorially intact Ukraine that can decide its own future.
Ukraine must be permitted to bring their own relief supplies safely to areas in the east of the country that are controlled by the separatists.
Here we have the Schengen agreement, and the truth is that for years we trusted each other and set border controls on the outer borders of the European Union. And as was the case with the economic and monetary union, with this step, regarding the management of the Schengen area, we did not go all the way in terms of political solutions.
Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together.
We work well together with the United Kingdom - particularly, perhaps, when we talk about new rules for the European Union.
This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed.
Germany's strength lies largely in the fact that the Federal Republic is a center of industry and that it's an export nation.
As a 7-year-old child, I saw the Wall being erected. No one - although it was a stark violation of international law - believed at the time that one ought to intervene militarily in order to protect citizens of the GDR and whole Eastern bloc, of the consequences of that - namely, to live in lack of freedom for many, many years.
I always wanted to know what I'd face next, even though that was maybe a bit detrimental to spontaneity. Structuring my life and avoiding chaos was more important.
That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.
We are a country based on democracy, tolerance, and openness to the world.
We know that our life of freedom is stronger than terror.
Controversial disputes are a part of democratic culture.
We abide by our responsibility as Germany for the Shoah.
I have a relatively sunny spirit, and I always had the expectation that my path through life would be relatively sunny, no matter what happened. I have never allowed myself to be bitter.
I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on.
This inclination to hoard is deeply ingrained in me because in the past, in times of scarcity, you took what you could get.
You can much better have an influence on the debate when you sit at the bargaining table and you can give input.
The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fast enough.
The willingness to learn new skills is very high.
When I'm stirring a saucepan, I don't say to myself, 'Now the chancellor is stirring a saucepan.'
I will not let anyone tell me we must spend more money. This crisis did not come about because we issued too little money but because we created economic growth with too much money and it was not sustainable growth.
We will be very persistent when it comes to enforcing freedom, justice, and self-determination on the European continent.
I have just explained my idea of how a constructive period of reflection, one that would send a clear message to the citizens of Europe: You should now what our priorities are. For Germany this means: Unemployment is one of one of our biggest problems.
We have a duty as the state to protect our economy... We are for the protection of intellectual property.
If we look at where relations between the Soviet Union and Germany were in 1945 and where we stand now, then we have achieved so much.
Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.
We Germans have a special responsibility to be alert, sensitive, and aware of what we did during the Nazi era and about lasting damage caused in other countries. I've got tremendous sympathy for that.
Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then.
For me, personally, marriage is a man and a woman living together.
When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.
We will have to accept a certain degree of legal immigration; that's globalisation... In the era of the smartphone, we cannot shut ourselves away... people know full well how we live in Europe.
We're saying this to both countries: We want a two-state solution. We want a Jewish state of Israel and alongside a independent Palestinian state. Unilateral measures are not helping at all to bring about this cause, and we agree that we wish to cooperate very closely on this, because as we both say, time is of the essence.
Germany has become a country that many people abroad associate with hope.
The European Army is our long-term goal. But first we have to strengthen the European Defence Union.
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