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Angela Merkel Quotes

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

– Angela Merkel

We abide by our responsibility as Germany for the Shoah.

– Angela Merkel

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.

– Angela Merkel

We needed 40 years to overcome East Germany. Sometimes in history, one has to be prepared for the long haul and not ask after four months if it still makes sense to keep up our demands.

– Angela Merkel

The West was a wonderful world to me. I decided then that if this is the way they did things, then I wanted to be part of it.

– Angela Merkel

I’ve spoken several times with Prime Minister Erdogan about relations between Turkey and Israel. I’m pleased that, following President Obama’s visit to Israel, talks between Israel and Turkey are again taking place and hope that relations between them will further improve in the interest of both countries.

– Angela Merkel

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.

– Angela Merkel

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.

– Angela Merkel

I believe those that produce the least emissions in autos will also be those who have the greatest success worldwide.

– Angela Merkel

It is always the case that when something emerges – which, of course, from the perspective of the former West Germany looks very different – then people say, ‘She hasn’t told us this yet’ and ‘She hasn’t told us that yet.’ I don’t know – maybe there are other things I didn’t talk about because no one ever asked me.

– Angela Merkel

Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn’t the top priority.

– Angela Merkel

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.

– Angela Merkel

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.

– Angela Merkel

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.

– Angela Merkel

We have shared responsibility for global climate; we have to reduce climate change below 2 degrees Celsius.

– Angela Merkel

For me, personally, marriage is a man and a woman living together.

– Angela Merkel

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.

– Angela Merkel

There is a lot that binds Germany to Turkey, and even if we have a difference of opinion on an individual matter, the breadth of our links, our friendship, our strategic ties, is great.

– Angela Merkel

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

– Angela Merkel

The European Army is our long-term goal. But first we have to strengthen the European Defence Union.

– Angela Merkel

IT companies in Bangalore are a reliable engine of development for India.

– Angela Merkel

For me, it is always important that I go through all the possible options for a decision.

– Angela Merkel

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.

– Angela Merkel

Spying among friends is never acceptable.

– Angela Merkel

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

– 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

I’m someone who is very supportive of us eliminating all discrimination.

– Angela Merkel

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.

– Angela Merkel

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.

– Angela Merkel

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

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