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.

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.

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

Isn't there any heaven where old beautiful dances, old beautiful intimacies prolong themselves?

The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.

My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.

Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

I avoid roles that might send me down a road where I might end up being typecast.

Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.

The arts are not a way to make a living.

We live with a future where every three or four months, we have to question everything. You think you could be the best, or that you're nothing and you don't know what you're doing. It is exhausting.

I think Ivanka Trump she has this power and powerful women are reaching out to her and she needs to take advantage of that.

Negative thoughts are not protecting you. They are making you smaller.