Quotes from Angela Merkel

At this time - we're in a dramatic crisis - euro bonds are precisely the wrong answer. They lead us into a debt union, not a stability union. Each country has to take its own steps to reduce its debt.

We've stated very clearly that no negotiating chapters between the European Union and Turkey will be concluded before the Ankara Protocol is complied with: that's to say before Turkey grants all E.U. member states, including Cyprus, access to its ports.

I personally hope and wish that Britain will stay part and parcel of the European Union.

The 'community method' can only be applied in those areas in which the European Union actually has competence. Where the community has no competence, the 'community method' clearly cannot be applied.

We believe that from both a German and a Polish perspective, it is desirable for Great Britain to remain in the European Union.

If we look at where relations between the Soviet Union and Germany were in 1945 and where we stand now, then we have achieved so much.

It's my damn duty and obligation to do everything possible for Europe to find a united path.

We work well together with the United Kingdom - particularly, perhaps, when we talk about new rules for the European Union.

Let me say this on a personal note. Without the United States of America, I would in all probably not be able to stand here before you today.

I said, yet again, for Germany, Europe is not only indispensable, it is part and parcel of our identity. We've always said German unity, European unity and integration, that's two parts of one and the same coin. But we want, obviously, to boost our competitiveness.

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

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.

Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together.

When I'm stirring a saucepan, I don't say to myself, 'Now the chancellor is stirring a saucepan.'

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

We cannot stand alone. With 80 million people in this world of today, you cannot, when you just stand on your own, achieve much even though you may be economically strong.

This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed.

There is no doubt the NATO-Russia Act should remain valid.

Let us answer the terrorists by living our values with courage.

To be serious, if we were only interested in earning big money then a politician would have to go and work in industry.

With political means and always trying to work for political settlements and this is what I'm going to continue to work on with all my heart.

Germany's strength lies largely in the fact that the Federal Republic is a center of industry and that it's an export nation.

Especially in a very secular world, we should always stress what is common in the Christian religion.

For those who share my view that the Jews as a people have a right to self-determination, Zionism as a national movement of the Jewish people is the embodiment of this very right, which its opponents want to deny.