Angela Merkel Quotes

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Angela Merkel

Profession : Statesman

Birth : July 17, 1954

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.

Angela Merkel

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.

Angela Merkel

Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then.

Angela Merkel

We work well together with the United Kingdom - particularly, perhaps, when we talk about new rules for the European Union.

Angela Merkel

I personally hope and wish that Britain will stay part and parcel of the European Union.

Angela Merkel

If you wish to have free access to the single market, then you have to accept the fundamental rights as well as obligation that come from it.

Angela Merkel

Having led many negotiations with countries outside the E.U. in the past, we would never enter the same compromises and reach the same good outcomes with states that don't shoulder the responsibilities and costs of the common market.

Angela Merkel

The goal of our actions is and will remain a sovereign and territorially intact Ukraine that can decide its own future.

Angela Merkel

We need a really credible perspective toward long-term de-carbonization.

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We are a country based on democracy, tolerance, and openness to the world.

Angela Merkel

We believe that from both a German and a Polish perspective, it is desirable for Great Britain to remain in the European Union.

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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.

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The way I lived my life, I truly wasn't an active resistance fighter.

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We know that our life of freedom is stronger than terror.

Angela Merkel

Germany wants peaceful coexistence of Muslims and members of other religions.

Angela Merkel

At this time - we're in a dramatic crisis - euro bonds are precisely the wrong answer. They lead us into a debt union, not a stability union. Each country has to take its own steps to reduce its debt.

Angela Merkel

I've learned that even the word 'jubilee' used in connection with the Reformation can give rise to discussions.

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At German unification, we were lucky to get so much help from West Germany. Now, we have the good fortune of being able to help each other in Europe.

Angela Merkel

At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.

Angela Merkel

Greece wishes to be part of the eurozone, but it must, of course, go through with the necessary reforms to make this happen.

Angela Merkel