But I stand here as my own person, as a mother of three, as a former interior minister, state leader, who has served this land for 18 years and who has learned what it means to lead. And that leadership has more to do with inner strength than how loud you talk.
We will look at the entire immigration question from the protection of outer borders through the asylum procedures to integration, in particular its efficacy.
It should be clear to everyone what happens when the populists can set the agenda.
There are also parties in Germany that support leaving the E.U. Everyone can see in the example of Britain what consequences that would have.
I have read a lot about what I am and who I am: 'mini,' a copy, simply 'more of the same.' Dear delegates, I stand before you as I am and as life made me and I am proud of that.
I learned what it is to lead - and above all learnt that leadership is more about being strong on the inside than being loud on the outside.
With every wish to take Europe forward with a German-French nucleus, the proposals must always fit with German interests.
The CDU is a party with more than 400,000 members. The fact that each one has a different opinion is what makes us interesting.
My goal is to unite the party, to bring it together.
We made a clear commitment to NATO's two percent goal. I know that we can't get there from one day to the next, but I'm just as clear on the fact that we must get there in the end.
I have to do my work as party leader and that's what I'm concentrating on.
I stand here as the mother of three children, who knows firsthand how difficult it can be to combine family and a career.
For me there is no conservative and liberal party, not one that is pro-economy or pro-workers, not one for the East and one for the West. For me, there is only the one union, the Christian Democratic Union, that is our family.
Our feeling of community and security in Europe requires safe external borders.
I think people see me as authentic, just like I am, with my ideas, my style of doing politics.
There are similarities with Angela Merkel, there are issues that separate us, and I'm showing that genuinely and authentically and won't create an artificial separation because it has something to do with character and attitude.
We have to acknowledge and discuss with citizens that Germany needs to take on more responsibility. One of the questions is, 'Can we keep a functioning international order?'
When Presidents Trump, Putin and Erdogan are mentioned in the same breath here in Germany, as they are all too often, this is a false equivalence that cannot be tolerated.
Freedom of opinion is a valuable asset in a democracy.
European centralism, European statism, the communitization of sovereign debt, a Europeanization of social systems and of the minimum wage would be the wrong way.
