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

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.

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.

Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe.

You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

A stranger sleeps next to me, like a stone beside another stone.

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.

Anyone who tries to deny #ClimateChange looks a little bit bonkers.

If he's choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn't respect your feelings and needs.

I remember the snow in Canada and the lovely weather in New Zealand. And I slightly remember going to school there.

Government expands to absorb revenue - and then some.

Computers have changed the world of chess.

The simple fact is that we must not-and we will not-surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice.

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.