279 Quotes by Angela Merkel

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

We've always had this experience that things take long, but I'm 100% convinced that our principles will in the end prevail. No one knew how the Cold War would end at the time, but it did end. This is within our living experience... I'm surprised at how fainthearted we sometimes are and how quickly we lose courage.

We need... to say to people that this is a temporary residential status, and we expect that, once there is peace in Syria again, once IS has been defeated in Iraq, that you go back to your home country with the knowledge that you have gained.

If you wish to have free access to the single market, then you have to accept the fundamental rights as well as obligation that come from it.

Industrialised countries must take the responsibility of helping poorer countries in the climate change action plan.

I chose to pursue a career in physics because there the truth isn't so easily bent.

We abide by our responsibility as Germany for the Shoah.

Germany has become a country that many people abroad associate with hope.

There is a lot that binds Germany to Turkey, and even if we have a difference of opinion on an individual matter, the breadth of our links, our friendship, our strategic ties, is great.