When I'm stirring a saucepan, I don't say to myself, 'Now the chancellor is stirring a saucepan.'

It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.

I have a relatively sunny spirit, and I always had the expectation that my path through life would be relatively sunny, no matter what happened. I have never allowed myself to be bitter.

Let me say this on a personal note. Without the United States of America, I would in all probably not be able to stand here before you today.

Whenever you have political conflict, such as the one that we have now between Russia and Ukraine, but also in many other conflicts around the world, it has always proved to be right to try again and again to solve such a conflict.

We need... to say to people that this is a temporary residential status, and we expect that, once there is peace in Syria again, once IS has been defeated in Iraq, that you go back to your home country with the knowledge that you have gained.