26 Quotes by Franz Muentefering

None of us were prepared for a grand coalition. There was quite a lot to get over, and that's what we did in the past few weeks.

Money is short and it's clear that milk and honey will not flow, but there will still be healthy bread and decent jam,

Naturally, this was not easy for us, but we see the need to do something here.

It is clear that Germans do not want Mrs. Merkel as their chancellor.

It is possible that we can still do it, that Gerhard Schroeder can be chancellor again.

We don't dispute that unified parliamentary groups can exist, but it must be clear that coalition talks are conducted by individual parties.

We are ready to begin full talks for a grand coalition.

We still have a lot of important issues to discuss. In healthcare there is no middle ground between our positions.

We are confident that we will be able to win people over with Gerhard Schroeder at the helm,