I am not the German Tony Blair. Nor am I the German Bill Clinton. I am Gerhard Schroeder, chancellor of Germany, responsible for Germany. I don't want to be a copy of anyone.

We made a decision that monetary policy will be made by an independent European Central Bank.

We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.

There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets.

The euro is a sickly premature infant, the result of an over-hasty monetary union.

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

Take the military option off the table - we have already seen it doesn't work.

Any degree of unemployment worries me.

We want to change the way we help unemployed people find jobs. We want to be faster and more goal oriented.

We really believe our national interests are identical with European interests.

Our future begins on January 1 1999. The euro is Europe's key to the 21st century. The era of solo national fiscal and economic policy is over.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.

A hermit never lives alone when he has God as a house guest.

The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.

One symbol of lack of democracy is to have cars parked on the sidewalk.

I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf.

It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering.

I come from a sports family and my husband is a rugby player.

The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men

Paradise is a center whither the souls of all men are proceeding, each sect in its particular road.