We are seeing significant growth in foreign investment in Germany.

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.

Speech’ is such a thing that if handled [used] correctly, it encompasses all the major vows (mahavrats).

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…)A good novel editor is invisible.

I can't change you and you can't change me, but together we can work to change the world.

All wealth is the product of labor

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature.

Be mindful of the words that you use and the actions that you live and who you are and how it is you use your power. Keep clear at all times that you are what you say you are.

If you are advocating full retirement benefits starting at 60, my reaction is the system is already 31 percent underfinanced and can not afford what it's now doing, let alone such a policy change.

Do you ever have the feeling you're a tourist on earth?

I dont have a license, but I do drive.