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Angela Merkel puts Germany first. PAT BUCHANAN Merkel knows EU integration had been driven by the decades-long relationship between Germany and Fra...
ANDREAS MAURER Germany has somewhat been pushed into the lead in Europe. This implies great opportunities for Merke...
CONSTANZE STELZENMUELLER Angela Merkel believes fiercely that Germany needs a freer, more individualistic society, and more m...
GERD LANGGUTH Frau Merkel, you are being unfair. Germany is a world leader in exports. We are a leading country in...
GERHARD SCHR If we are seeing a recovery in Germany it is not a very strong one. Merkel will ultimately be judged...
ADAM POSEN Merkel will be a Christian-Democratic chancellor in a Social Democratic government.
CLAUS LEGGEWIE Merkel has a certain coolness towards Russia, after all she grew up in what she would view as an occ...
ALEXANDER RAHR [Merkel and her party] did criticize the Schroeder government, which in their view was needlessly an...
DANA ALLIN Merkel is chancellor, and she is reform-minded; we shouldn't forget that.
HOLGER SCHMIEDING Angela Merkel may very well be a dead woman walking. My gut instinct tells me Merkel is in a very di...
CONSTANZE STELZENMUELLER [Mrs. Merkel, now 51, could hardly wait to seize the moment to embrace unification.] As far as I hav...
GERHARD SCHR Merkel has absolutely no choice but to rein in spending. She'll have zero room for maneuver if she d...
GERO NEUGEBAUER The grand coalition should work out to be the best solution for Germany, ... Germany will remain clo...
ALEKSANDER KWASNIEWSKI It is clear that Germans do not want Mrs. Merkel as their chancellor.
FRANZ MUENTEFERING It is important that the two big German parties have reached agreement on the formation of a future ...
JOSEP BORRELL Supporters of the CDU failed to vote because of reservations about Merkel.
MANFRED GUELLNER The Social Democrats, by turning their attention to Merkel, objectively saved her.
KARSTEN VOIGT The reform mandate is probably not going to be as strong as it would have been under an outright vic...
IAN STANNARD Merkel gave a better performance than expected. There were big questions whether she was ready for p...
LUTZ ERBRING The goal for Mrs Merkel at this point is to mediate and help prevent a war.
HAJO FUNKE In Iraq we have a common interest in security, but even in a pure Merkel government we wouldn't have...
KARSTEN VOIGT The case for German equities does not rest on the outcome of the election. For more than a year now,...
LARS KRECKEL
My politics are wildly different from hers, but someone who has been good for women in politics, sta... NICOLA STURGEON The personal question has to be cleared up relatively quickly and it has to be accepted by the SPD t...
EDMUND STOIBER From what we saw at the summit, Merkel played a constructive role, not only for Poland but over all ...
JAN TRUSZYNSKI I think there's been an Angela Merkel -factor, as well as something more subtle happening.
DAVID ARKLESS Merkel is aware that if she goes too far in trying to establish a special relationship with Bush the...
ANTONIO MISSIROLI
I have absolutely the same opinion on this as Frau Merkel, HELMUT SCHMIDT It's an area that's more dependent on the government, and that's led to high voter turnout. Traditio...
CRAIG GRAU Merkel and Chirac would not have worked particularly well together.
JULIE SMITH
Ms Merkel has not sold her soul. The reform of the health insurance scheme next year will show that, ANGELA MERKEL As far as I can judge, Angela Merkel is not like Margaret Thatcher, and she actually should not try ...
CHARLES MOORE Any German chancellor has to have close relations with France, ... Merkel will have a close relation...
KARSTEN VOIGT People see Merkel as an alternative out of their desperation. She may not be, but that's how they se...
GERD LANGGUTH The personal question has to be cleared up relatively quickly, and it has to be accepted . . . that ...
EDMUND STOIBER If Schroeder is blocking her chancellorship -- as he appears to be -- then it's not looking good for...
DIETMAR HERZ
On this point I am of exactly the same mind as Ms Merkel. HELMUT SCHMIDT We should think very hard whether it makes sense to continue the talks under such circumstances. A g...
FRIEDBERT PFLUEGER Forget chummy foreign policy. Welcome to the chill winds of economic competition, Frau Merkel.
DMITRI TRENIN
Germany's Angela Merkel exudes an atmosphere of elderly exhaustion and pooped-out pessimism. Bri... PAUL JOHNSON I'm plain incapable of getting angry with Angela Merkel and likewise.
DONALD TUSK Once you start looking at one article or another, you could open the entire agenda. That is somethin...
ANDREAS MAURER Even if Angela Merkel wanted to copy Thatcher's radical renewal program, she would fail bitterly in ...
JUERGEN FALTER With Merkel in the chancellor's office, social progress and a sensible policy on climate change will...
REINHARD BUETIKOFER
I suspect Obama did not know he was recording Angela Merkel's cell phones. PETER THIEL They aren't able to criticize her, that would help Schroeder. But if Merkel becomes chancellor, then...
GERO NEUGEBAUER It has been a bit embarrassing for us as Americans to not play as strong a role as Germany. This is ...
MARK FARBER There's no way in hell Merkel will send troops to Iraq. But what her visit will definitely do is set...
JACKSON JANES The stalemate that emerged in the election is of course the worst result that you could have wished ...
KLAUS LIEBSCHER What Merkel is trying to do is to restore to some extent that balancing function within Europe and b...
KATINKA BARYSCH
I have always thought that humanity was animal-like. The Confucian theory was man could be improved,... LEE KUAN YEW One of the most important reasons for North Korea continuing its nuclear ambitions is to consolidate...
LEE MYUNG-BAK
We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has ... THOR HEYERDAHL The credibility of the Election Commission has been seriously undermined. If there is one important ...
FARHATULLAH BABAR The credibility of the Election Commission has been seriously undermined, ... If there is one import...
FARHATULLAH BABAR It was the final straw for a lot of voters.
DIETMAR HERZ Schwarzenegger is clearly annoyed as he asked that the president not come until after the election b...
SHERRY BEBITCH JEFFE Many market participants are hoping for the FDP to take on the role of a pacemaker, a force that pus...
JOERG KRAEMER
Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal an... EDMUND PHELPS The credibility of the Election Commission has been seriously undermined. If there is one important ...
FARHATULLAH BABAR Clearly, the election is going to be won in the Midwest and the Rust Belt, places where President Bu...
DICK GEPHARDT There have been times when I felt like I was being blamed by everybody,
LAURA RANDALL I think that (if Merkel wins) there's going to be much more of an effort to say 'let's see where we ...
JACKSON JANES No one is climbing the spiritual ladder. We don't continually improve until we are so spiritual we n...
NADIA BOLZ-WEBER Whoever is out of favor at the moment has been blamed, ... The whole Arab world got blamed.
HUSSEIN IBISH
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment ... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW President Bush did not do well. He received an underwhelming reception both on U.S. security and tra...
BRUCE BAGLEY President Bush did not do well, ... He received an underwhelming reception both on U.S. security and...
BRUCE BAGLEY In some ways they are similar. Both are women, of course. Both started their careers in science, and...
JACQUELINE BOYSEN The company has been very dynamic and proactive in their target marketing of customers and they're r...
JENNIFER SCUTTI We've been very blessed by her presence. She teaches the students about differences. ... She has bee...
JUDY LEWIS
... government that "substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW There is a level of mistrust. The lack of a consolidated effort by HB-LED manufacturers with OEMs ha...
LAWRENCE GASMAN What wasn't hit by Katrina is being targeted by Rita. The market is taking the storm very seriously.
AGBELI AMEKO It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full t...
PETER MANDELSON The result is clear, the government is deeply disappointed by the referendum result.
BERTIE AHERN
The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the pe... BARBRA STREISAND The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the pe...
BARBARA STREISAND Reliance Industries has clearly led the rise today, and investors are confident because of the fund ...
DIPEN SANGHAVI Whatever happened during the French presidential campaign will leave no hard feelings. I perfectly u...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the Germ...
GEORGE WILLIAM NORRIS What you're seeing is revealing weaknesses in the state, local and federal levels. All three levels ...
ERIC TOLBERT The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.
ED GILLESPIE It is now time for the government to take stock of the havoc that is being wreaked by crude cuts to ...
MARK SERWOTKA
Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always to... H.L. MENCKEN In this campaign we had two goals: a strong election for Labor and a chance to form a majority gover...
JENS STOLTENBERG It has been a failure because the big industrial polluters, led by the United States, have failed to...
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SAPPHO Nine will need to seriously rebuild to maintain their premium. But more than anything, this is a gre...
HAROLD MITCHELL We knew we had to play really well defensively, because Germany has a few very talented players. I w...
EMMA LAAKSONEN
The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been trie... RUSH LIMBAUGH The West has turned out a host of other movies similar to 'Schindler's List'. This has, to some exte...
LIU JUN Believe me, no one in the SPD will allow Merkel to win the elections. There's no chance that we will...
LUDWIG STIEGLER Suddenly we found the Sunnis pushed out of the Iraqi government. Because of that, we decided to go t...
AHMED ALI
This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people. JOHN WYCLIFFE What has really helped the quarter is very good sales because of El Nino. El Nino, is blamed for man...
DANIEL BARRY This community is not going to take this. They patronize us, like a child, ... We're not being taken...
LOUIS BENJAMIN This unwillingness to admit guilt is traced back to the Garden of Eden. Adam blamed Eve and she blam...
WALTER LANG It was really a very peaceful and very calm death. Clearly she died because of her injuries.
JULIAN GARDNER
Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint. 