Angela Merkel Quotes

• Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn’t the top priority.

  Angela Merkel

• We’re saying this to both countries: We want a two-state solution. We want a Jewish state of Israel and alongside a independent Palestinian state. Unilateral measures are not helping at all to bring about this cause, and we agree that we wish to cooperate very closely on this, because as we both say, time is of the essence.

  Angela Merkel

• We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity – that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.

  Angela Merkel

• Today’s Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then.

  Angela Merkel

• Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It must be clear what the priorities on the agenda are.

  Angela Merkel

• This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed.

  Angela Merkel

• The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fats enough.

  Angela Merkel

• The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests.

  Angela Merkel

• The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.

  Angela Merkel

• The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won’t do. Politicians have to make sure that we’re unassailable, that we can make policy for the people.

  Angela Merkel

• The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.

  Angela Merkel

• That makes me think of the 2002 World Cup Final above all else. Nobody thought at the time that our team would get through to the Final against Brazil. We should remember that this summer.

  Angela Merkel

• 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.

  Angela Merkel

• So Europe needs to be competitive and we also need to be competitive if we wish to remain an interesting economic partner for the United States. This has to be done on the basis of strength, of competitiveness.

  Angela Merkel

• Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.

  Angela Merkel

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• Personally, I think that for example the chemical directive in its present form does too much damage to the chemical industry – especially the medium sized businesses – and will hurt our worldwide competitiveness.

  Angela Merkel

• Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.

  Angela Merkel

• On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda – we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics.

  Angela Merkel

• Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together.

  Angela Merkel

• Let me say this on a personal note. Without the United States of America, I would in all probably not be able to stand here before you today.

  Angela Merkel

Angela Merkel (45)

Birth:	17th July, 1954
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Chancellor, Politician, Scientist

About

Angela Dorothea Merkel is a German politician and a former research scientist, who has been the Chancellor of Germany since 2005 and the leader of the Christian Democratic Union since 2000. She is the first woman to hold either office, the first German Chancellor to be born after World War II, and the first post-reunification Chancellor to hail from the former East Germany. Having earned a doctorate as a physical chemist, Merkel entered politics in the wake of the Revolutions of 1989, briefly serving as the deputy spokesperson for the first democratically elected East German Government in 1990.  After the CDU/CSU coalition was defeated in 1998, she was elected Secretary-General of the CDU, before being elected the party's first ever woman as leader in 2000. Following the 2005 federal election, she was appointed Germany's first female Chancellor at the head of a grand coalition consisting of her own CDU party, its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, and the Social Democratic Party of Germany.  In 2007, Merkel was President of the European Council and chaired the G8, the second woman to do so.  Angela Merkel has been described as the de facto leader of the European Union, and was ranked as the world's second most powerful person by Forbes magazine in 2013, the highest ranking ever achieved by a woman, and is now ranked fifth.

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