I can't think of many other laws we might need. For now, though, we'll be talking to German Muslims over issues of coexistence.

You can lead a happy life if you recognize that it's limited and completely unpredictable from one moment to the next.

Our balanced budget has an important psychological function. It is a signal that we can't continue to constantly take on debt.

I want to see religious instruction and sermons held in German in the mosques. The ideal, in my view, would be for imams to be trained in Germany and to speak our language, just as the Roman Catholic Church now holds mass in German and gave up Latin long ago.

The significant collapse of oil prices shows that it was previously way too high.

The United States lived on borrowed money for too long, inflating its financial sector unnecessarily and neglecting its small and mid-sized industrial companies.

If the Schengen system (of border-free travel) is destroyed, Europe will be seriously endangered politically and economically. That is why we Europeans have to invest billions in Turkey, Libya, Jordan and other countries in the region as quickly as possible everybody as much as they can.