I never underestimated myself. And I never saw anything wrong with ambition.

I believe that we will move forward a little tomorrow but I have my doubts that we will achieve a result.

Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are.

We need trust among allies and partners. Such trust now has to be built anew.

The G7 and former G8 group has always viewed itself as a community of values, the annexation of Crimea, which is a blatant violation of the principles of international law, and the events in eastern Ukraine are serious violations of these common values.

We Europeans must really take our destiny into our own hands, of course in friendship with the United States, in friendship with Great Britain, with other neighbors wherever possible, also with Russia. But we must know that we need to fight for our future ourselves, as Europeans, for our destiny.

The full veil is not appropriate for Germans, and should be banned wherever legally possible.