Angela Merkel

As a 7-year-old child, I saw the Wall being erected. No one - although it was a stark violation of international law - believed at the time that one ought to intervene militarily in order to protect citizens of the GDR and whole Eastern bloc, of the consequences of that - namely, to live in lack of freedom for many, many years. ”

We work well together with the United Kingdom - particularly, perhaps, when we talk about new rules for the European Union. ”

We have to ensure politically that what's doable can indeed by translated into law, but what's not doable mustn't become European law. Otherwise, the auto industry will work somewhere with higher carbon emissions - and we can't want that. ”

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

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

Russia has nothing: no successful politics or economy. ”

The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future. ”

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

We Germans have a special responsibility to be alert, sensitive, and aware of what we did during the Nazi era and about lasting damage caused in other countries. I've got tremendous sympathy for that. ”

We abide by our responsibility as Germany for the Shoah. ”