The euro is a vital issue for Germany. There is no other country that derives as much benefit from the common domestic market and the monetary union as Germany.

I would happily help to turn the stone being thrown at me into a boomerang.

Nevertheless, I don't hesitate to say that elections in Germany are decided in the center, not on the fringes and not in the accumulation of minority interests.

If things sometimes get tough, you can't ask yourself what impact it's having on you. It isn't an option.

The U.S. will lose its status as the superpower of the world financial system. The world will become multi-polar.

You can't let a candidate run for too long. He will be dragged along, cut apart, put back together and ripped to shreds again - from both the political opponents and the media.

When you understand what you’re truly worth, who is going to be able to make you feel worthless? No one.

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit?

Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account a tyrant or wicked king, and after due conviction to depose and put him to death.

I think a lot of the way I live my life is not just for me, which has sometimes been a burden. A lot of the choices I make are in order to make them [my parents] proud.

Worship is our response to what we value most. As a result, worship fuels our actions, becoming the driving force of all we do.

All you need to do to be a bit sexier is to smile once in a while!

There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.

You are your choices.