Become a teacher. Your country needs you.

When times get tough, we don't give up. We get up.

The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.

If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost.

Slowly, but surely, we are moving in the right direction. We're on the right track. The economy is getting stronger

Occasionally I would like the German people to give us the benefit of the doubt, given our history, as opposed to assuming the worst -- assuming that we have been consistently your strong partners and that we share a common set of values.

A better politics is one where we appeal to each other’s basic decency instead of our basest fears.