Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

European centralism, European statism, the communitization of sovereign debt, a Europeanization of social systems and of the minimum wage would be the wrong way. ”

I stand here as the mother of three children, who knows firsthand how difficult it can be to combine family and a career. ”

You don't restore people's faith in law and order with shrill tones, but with real policies. ”

When it comes to me, I can rule out that I am scheming for a change. ”

We need to be at the forefront of technological development again. ”

My husband and I had a very pragmatic agreement right from the start: whoever earns more works full time. So we switched the classic roles. ”

For a long time, perhaps too long, we believed that the world around us would become more and more peaceful, and the order more stable. ”

We need strategic strength for our industry, technology and innovation, a sense of security for our European citizens and common foreign and security capabilities to defend our interests. ”

I have to do my work as party leader and that's what I'm concentrating on. ”

For me there is no conservative and liberal party, not one that is pro-economy or pro-workers, not one for the East and one for the West. For me, there is only the one union, the Christian Democratic Union, that is our family. ”