No bank should be allowed to become so big that it can blackmail governments.

We will take care of every single person in our society. That is our task.

If I run a time-limited test program, I'll never discover whether markets with additional employment truly exist. A solution in the low-wage sector cannot be a limited special program.

To be serious, if we were only interested in earning big money then a politician would have to go and work in industry.

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.

Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.

I want to see everyone contribute to the overall costs of the system, and with their entire earnings. I'm convinced that an objective discussion will reveal that the differences between the parties, which have been greatly exaggerated in some quarters, aren't that significant after all.