Able Quote by Angela Merkel

The fact is that Germany is taking on its responsibility in the world - in the fight against IS, but also in the Middle…

— Frank-Walter Steinmeier

European countries need to make more of a contribution in terms of defence capabilities. It is not fair?to keep turning to our ally in…

— Geoff Hoon

True, other countries are helping us. Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will…

— Eduard Shevardnadze

From Russia for example, we have political support, which is different from the cooperation. We have cooperation for 60 years now, but now we…

— Bashar al-Assad

There are some issues where we have common interests with Germany, there are some others that we don't... The diplomacy between good neighbors doesn't…

— Andrzej Duda

The United States is our most important ally. They helped us many times. Without the United States, the unification or German democratisation after the…

— Joschka Fischer

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking…

— Colin Powell

We've had Saudis and Jordanians and Pakistanis who have - and Syrians - who have been involved in armed attacks against coalition forces in…

— Richard Armitage

Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don't want dominance.

— Gerhard Schroder

Germany has become an important haven for terrorists.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

If, on our own account, we do not intend to wage war, we are much less willing to do so for interests which do…

— Adolf Hitler

Germany is too big to sit on the sidelines on world issues. Military force is not the ultima ratio it used to be, but…

— Frank-Walter Steinmeier