I think we can say our energy system will be the most efficient and environmentally friendly in the world.

The land of unlimited opportunity was for me, for a long time, impossible to reach. The wall, barbed wire and the order to shoot at those who tried to leave limited my access to the free world.

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

Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

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.

If it's in the German interest to have good trans-Atlantic relations, well, the task is also to look ahead, but our personal - that we have freedom of movement in the whole of Germany so if we want to see each other, well, I'm game.

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