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  For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it. Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward.

  3.8 · 43 votes · 13 reads

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  From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.

  3.7 · 21 votes · 15 reads

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  Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions.

  3.5 · 42 votes · 176 reads

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  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.

  4.9 · 59 votes · 115 reads

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  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.

  4.6 · 8 votes · 123 reads

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  I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.

  4.6 · 60 votes · 155 reads

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  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.

  4.4 · 12 votes · 156 reads

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  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 know what our priorities are. For Germany this means: Unemployment is one of one of our biggest problems.

  4.7 · 9 votes · 111 reads

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  I said, yet again, for Germany, Europe is not only indispensable, it is part and parcel of our identity. We've always said German unity, European unity and integration, that's two parts of one and the same coin. But we want, obviously, to boost our compet

  3.2 · 48 votes · 104 reads

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  I see nothing that points to a recession in Germany. But I see considerable long-term tasks ahead of us that have to do with markets regaining confidence in Europe and that have a lot to do with reducing debt.

  4.0 · 64 votes · 45 reads

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  I think that the European Union with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment.

  5.0 · 54 votes · 43 reads

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  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.

  3.2 · 19 votes · 41 reads

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  If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots.

  4.3 · 56 votes · 73 reads

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  In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together.

  3.1 · 17 votes · 61 reads

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  In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand coalition Christian Democrats and Social Democrats sit in the same boat and need to pull in the same direction.

  3.5 · 45 votes · 178 reads

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  It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on spor

  4.9 · 31 votes · 177 reads

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  It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.

  3.1 · 9 votes · 177 reads

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  It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.

  4.3 · 26 votes · 60 reads

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  It will not be possible to solve the current crisis with euro bonds.

  3.3 · 51 votes · 159 reads

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  Let me say this on a personal note. Without the United States of America, I would in all probably not be able to stand here before you today.

  3.1 · 9 votes · 110 reads

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  Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together.

  3.3 · 47 votes · 114 reads

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  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.

  3.7 · 41 votes · 111 reads

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  Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integratio

  3.5 · 20 votes · 15 reads

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  Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.

  5.0 · 56 votes · 162 reads

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  So Europe needs to be competitive and we also need to be competitive if we wish to remain an interesting economic partner for the United States. This has to be done on the basis of strength, of competitiveness.

  4.3 · 26 votes · 106 reads

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  Spying among friends is never acceptable.

  4.0 · 49 votes · 80 reads

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  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.

  4.0 · 50 votes · 60 reads

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  That makes me think of the 2002 World Cup Final above all else. Nobody thought at the time that our team would get through to the Final against Brazil. We should remember that this summer.

  3.1 · 42 votes · 78 reads

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  The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.

  4.8 · 19 votes · 197 reads

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  The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable, that we can make policy for the people.

  4.0 · 20 votes · 133 reads

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  The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.

  3.1 · 15 votes · 21 reads

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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.

  4.6 · 5 votes · 116 reads

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  The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fats enough.

  5.0 · 8 votes · 190 reads

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  The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

  3.5 · 54 votes · 140 reads

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  This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed.

  4.8 · 19 votes · 61 reads

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  Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It must be clear what the priorities on the agenda are.

  4.7 · 47 votes · 47 reads

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

  5.0 · 33 votes · 32 reads

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  We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.

  3.4 · 35 votes · 73 reads

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  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

  4.4 · 39 votes · 59 reads

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  When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

  4.4 · 44 votes · 177 reads

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