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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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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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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Extreme situation in which Germany finds itself, we have no choice but to vote for the grand coalition.
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That's an absolute cheek. You won't win this elections this way.
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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 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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What is going on in China now smells like technology theft.
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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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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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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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The course and the predictability of the SPD is no longer clear.
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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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We will not be able to go without a tax cut for the middle class.
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The political situation has changed. The SPD is no longer so predictable.
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We bear the responsibility to form a stable government with a capability to act.
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She will be a good chancellor and will have me ... by her side all the way.
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Unfortunately, we don't have such intelligent citizens everywhere as we do in Bavaria.
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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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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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This shows that Germany is not fully equipped for international competition.
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The course of the SPD and its reliability is not so clear anymore.