Thank [Barack Obama] for the friendship you've always demonstrated.

Particularly from a German perspective, from a European perspective, I can only say again, Russia is our neighbor.

Only our own strength, a strong conservative party, can prevent Red-Red-Green from taking power at the federal level in 2017.

We all want to be honest and draw lessons from the past, the WHO is the only international organization that has universal political legitimacy on global health issues. This is why it's so important to render its structures more efficient.

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

The campaign in the media takes place in many different formats, such as in citizens forums or town - hall shows. And because we don't have a presidential system in Germany, people vote for parties instead of specific candidates. From the perspective of smaller parties, even one single televised debate is a detested anomaly, because only the lead candidates from the conservatives and the SPD take part.

The digital world creates situation where there are no secrets anymore.