Quotes of Angela Merkel

Popular Quotes of Angela Merkel

1. Controversial disputes are a part of democratic culture.
2. It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.
3. Solidarity and competitiveness are the two sides of a European coin.
4. Spying among friends is never acceptable.
5. For me, it is always important that I go through all the possible options for a decision.
6. I am for our not having any discrimination in tax legislation.
7. Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together.

You can much better have an influence on the debate when you sit at the bargaining table and you can give input.

Angela Merkel

That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

Angela Merkel

It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.

Angela Merkel

For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it. Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward.

Angela Merkel

Solidarity and competitiveness are the two sides of a European coin.

Angela Merkel

Spying among friends is never acceptable.

For me, it is always important that I go through all the possible options for a decision.

Angela Merkel

Industrialized countries must take the responsibility of helping poorer countries in the climate change action plan.

Angela Merkel

In many regions, war and terror prevail. States disintegrate. For many years, we have read about this. We have heard about it. We have seen it on TV. But we had not yet sufficiently understood that what happens in Aleppo and Mosul can affect Essen or Stuttgart. We have to face that now.

Angela Merkel

Personally, I think that for example the chemical directive in its present form does too much damage to the chemical industry – especially the medium sized businesses – and will hurt our worldwide competitiveness.

Angela Merkel

As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU.

Angela Merkel

In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together.

Angela Merkel

Today’s Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then.

Angela Merkel

It will not be possible to solve the current crisis with euro bonds.

Angela Merkel

I’m someone who is very supportive of us eliminating all discrimination.

Angela Merkel

I am for our not having any discrimination in tax legislation.

Angela Merkel

Let us answer the terrorists by living our values with courage.

Angela Merkel

We know that our life of freedom is stronger than terror.

India needs jobs, Germany needs people, and collaboration is crucial to meet the demographic needs of both countries.

Angela Merkel

I never felt the GDR was my home country.

Angela Merkel

We abide by our responsibility as Germany for the Shoah.

Angela Merkel

We have a duty as the state to protect our economy… We are for the protection of intellectual property.

Angela Merkel

If the euro fails, Europe fails.

Angela Merkel

Ukraine must be permitted to bring their own relief supplies safely to areas in the east of the country that are controlled by the separatists.

Angela Merkel

The only thing the East German system taught us was that we should never do it that way again.

Angela Merkel

Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together.

Angela Merkel

The way I lived my life, I truly wasn’t an active resistance fighter.

I see nothing that points to a recession in Germany. But I see considerable long-term tasks ahead of us that have to do with markets regaining confidence in Europe and that have a lot to do with reducing debt.

Angela Merkel

Free access to the single market will be granted to a country which accepts the four fundamental freedoms of movement of people, goods, services, and capital

Angela Merkel

If we look at where relations between the Soviet Union and Germany were in 1945 and where we stand now, then we have achieved so much.

Angela Merkel

I think it has been a tremendous feat on the part of East Germans since 1990 to adapt to everything changing.

Angela Merkel