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

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.

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.

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.

Personal brands are determined by a track record of actions, not a track record of plans.

I wouldnt say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.

You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.

Setbacks and fear are inevitable. The thing that distinguishes the ultimate successes from the ultimate failures is this: What do you do with them?

Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.

I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.

Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the eyes of birds when we wish them to sing?

I'm never satisfied. I can always find things that I can do better and go further on, so I force myself to accept when someone says, "We have it, it's good and we can move on."

A whole woman will always attract a whole man. And when they touch, they will fuse to create a whole marriage. Ultimately, when the time is right, they will produce whole children.