Thank[Barack Obama] for the reliable friendship and partnership you demonstrated in very difficult hours of our relationship.

We have freedom to demonstrate in Germany, but there is no place for incitement and insulting people who come to us from other countries.

The European Union and the United States of America are the big important economic areas for us, which is why I always have come up strongly in favor of concluding a trade agreement with the United States of America.

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

I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on.

For 10 years, I have fought passionately for climate protection.

Foreign policy that is obviously guided by interests, but that is very much also committed to shared values, so we have a platform, democracy, freedom, respect of human rights that we would like to see respected all over the world and also, a peaceful world order.