I chose to pursue a career in physics because there the truth isn't so easily bent.

He promised they would reduce unemployment by two million, ... Instead it grew. That's the truth.

This inclination to hoard is deeply ingrained in me because in the past, in times of scarcity, you took what you could get.

After the reunification, there was a certain sense of foreignness because daily life in the former East German states was completely turned inside out - everything from the shops to the bureaucracy to the working world.

I will not let anyone tell me we must spend more money. This crisis did not come about because we issued too little money but because we created economic growth with too much money and it was not sustainable growth.

We're saying this to both countries: We want a two-state solution. We want a Jewish state of Israel and alongside a independent Palestinian state. Unilateral measures are not helping at all to bring about this cause, and we agree that we wish to cooperate very closely on this, because as we both say, time is of the essence.