I'm hearing different things, but there is concern that stable Germany is no longer quite so stable.

In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.

Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.

We need a greening of globalisation.

Real life is happening outside and not in front of a computer.

The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense.

Iran is the only country in the world that's threatening to erase another country from the map as part of a collective genocide.

Maybe it is the last chance for Europe to influence standards for world trade. Next it will be between the US and the Asia-Pacific region.

What could become a danger to world peace is Iran's nuclear program and the country's open threat to annihilate Israel.

I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as well.

Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe.

The beauty of a youthful strength is a blissful life!

The Real Life from the Heart is not to Discover the Value of Money.

You can always choose how you prefer to respond to any external circumstances. Do not define your happiness by what is happening around you. Be happy only because this is what you enjoy doing.

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!

People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.

But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.

I just learned that, even though in a past life, I was a model, too.

If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double.

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.