Edmund Stoiber Quotes
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This grand coalition was not wanted, but it is a great chance.
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Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!
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That the chancellor sets the course in a coalition with equally strong partners is only possible in very small doses. Either we can do it together, or it must be laid to rest.
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The personal question has to be cleared up relatively quickly and it has to be accepted by the SPD that Angela Merkel will be chancellor.
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The most devastating of the last 50 years.
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The crisis in the pensions budget is dramatic, ... There should be no taboos about discussing longer working lives and increasing both actual and legal retirement ages.
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That's an absolute cheek. You won't win this elections this way.
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I have come to the conclusion that as leader I can represent my party's interests better in Munich.
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Extreme situation in which Germany finds itself, we have no choice but to vote for the grand coalition.
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This is the greatest act of budget consolidation in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Should we not be able to construct a government ... the Schroeder government will only be able to govern for a very, very short time.
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So that we are capable of taking over the government, even if it is not possible at the present time.
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The course and the predictability of the SPD is no longer clear.
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In this altered situation, I have reached the decision that as the head of the party, I can better support the interests of the Christian Social Union in Munich.
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We will not be able to go without a tax cut for the middle class.
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What is going on in China now smells like technology theft.
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Unfortunately, we don't have such intelligent citizens everywhere as we do in Bavaria.
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The political situation has changed. The SPD is no longer so predictable.
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We must do everything, apply everything, apply every diplomatic, every political pressure so that the U.N. is successful that the inspectors are let into the country again and that we know exactly what weapons Saddam Hussein owns.
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She will be a good chancellor and will have me ... by her side all the way.
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We bear the responsibility to form a stable government with a capability to act.
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The consolidation of the budget is, of course, the premise for all further political measures. We want to achieve the Maastricht criteria by 2007.
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The signal from Schroeder and Chirac to Turkey, that they can be full members, has contributed to the failure of the constitutional treaty.
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This shows that Germany is not fully equipped for international competition.