The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.

I approach this with - with an open mind and I'll do it on the basis of a deep conviction with President-elect Donald Trump.

Look at the European Parliament. There are a lot of people who are looking for simplistic solutions, for - who are sort of preaching policies of - well, very unfriendly policies.

Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

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

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.

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