Above All It Is Important

I Don't Believe You Are Simply Born With The Ambition Of Becoming Chancellor. But If You Want To Make A Difference, If You Enjoy Putting Ideas Into Practice, Then The Post Of Chancellor Has To Be The One Presenting The Biggest Opportunity Of All.

An Institution Like Guantanamo In Its Present Form Cannot And Must Not Exist In The Long Term. We Must Find Different Ways Of Dealing With Prisoners. As Far As I'm Concerned There's No Question About That.

Our Relationship With The United States Is Not Reduced To Questions Of Fighting Terrorism And The Iraq War. German-american Relations Were So Good For So Many Years Because They Extended Deeply Into The Normal Lives Of People.

At This Time - We're In A Dramatic Crisis - Euro Bonds Are Precisely The Wrong Answer. They Lead Us Into A Debt Union, Not A Stability Union. Each Country Has To Take Its Own Steps To Reduce Its Debt.

We're Saying This To Both Countries: We Want A Two-state Solution. We Want A Jewish State Of Israel And Alongside An 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.