Climate protection creates sustainability and jobs in the real economy - in construction, in the production of heavy machinery and in systems engineering.

In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.

Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.

We need a greening of globalisation.

Real life is happening outside and not in front of a computer.

The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense.

Iran is the only country in the world that's threatening to erase another country from the map as part of a collective genocide.

Maybe it is the last chance for Europe to influence standards for world trade. Next it will be between the US and the Asia-Pacific region.

What could become a danger to world peace is Iran's nuclear program and the country's open threat to annihilate Israel.

I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as well.

I'm hearing different things, but there is concern that stable Germany is no longer quite so stable.

...the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.

Life is better when you're drunk. I ought to become an alcoholic.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

May we help more than we hurt, may we seek to understand more than be understood and may we love more than we judge.

Learn how to set goals. That's the key to everything. That includes designing your own success. You define what the goal is, it's not somebody else's goal, it's yours.

Only when we see that sacred, unadorned child of our devotion-the Babe of Bethlehem-will we know why the giving of gifts is so appropriate

I have a career, I worked so hard for it.

Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.

I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.