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

Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long.

The Freedom Bell in Berlin is, like the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, a symbol which reminds us that freedom does not come about of itself. It must be struggled for and then defended anew every day of our lives.

We have shared those values, we continue to share those values and obviously, we will continue to cooperate with the new administration [of the U.S].

If a market exists for low-paid work, then we should think about how we can make this type of work more attractive by providing government assistance. Of course, the wage-earner must be able to live off of his wages. We will not allow poverty wages or dumping wages. But the wage earner can receive a combined wage that includes both his actual wages and a government subsidy.

Ladies, it is not your education, status or personality that has brought you here but the elegance of God which was still and still working upon you.

Look at the history of the printing press, when this was invented what sort of consequences this had. Or industrialization, what sort of consequences that had. Very often, it led to enormous transformational processes within individual societies. And it took awhile until societies learned how to find the right kind of policies to contain this and manage and steer this.