There's a rumour going around that states cannot go bankrupt. This rumour is not true.

With political means and always trying to work for political settlements and this is what I'm going to continue to work on with all my heart.

The fact that people have hijacked it is certainly not something that fills me with great joy. We have to find new ways of addressing people, new ways of getting into contact with people.

Thank[Barack Obama] for the reliable friendship and partnership you demonstrated in very difficult hours of our relationship.

It's not five minutes to midnight. It's five minutes after midnight.

Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century.

If it's in the German interest to have good trans-Atlantic relations, well, the task is also to look ahead, but our personal - that we have freedom of movement in the whole of Germany so if we want to see each other, well, I'm game.