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If We Remind Ourselves Of The Fact That Every Fifth American Today Rightly Points And Perhaps Also With A Certain Degree Of Pride To His German Ancestry Or Her German Ancestry, We Can Safely Say That We, Indeed, Share Common Roots.

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.

Globalization - And I Think We Share This Conviction - Is That Globalization Needs To Be Shaped Politically, It Needs To Be Given A Human Face, But We Cannot Allow To Fall Back Into Plagued Globalization Times.

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.

Belong Purportedly To Certain Groups Say, "we Are The People And Not The Others." That Is Something That We Cannot Allow To Happen. That Is Something That I Think At The Time In The Gdr - At The Time When We Had This In The Gdr, Where The People Stood In The Street And Said, "we Are The People," That Is Something That Filled Me With Great Joy.