You don't restore people's faith in law and order with shrill tones, but with real policies.
The CDU is willing to continue to take responsibility for our country. We want to do justice to the government mandate.
It's hard to pigeonhole me.
My husband and I had a very pragmatic agreement right from the start: whoever earns more works full time. So we switched the classic roles.
If the military is to show the capabilities that we demand and expect of it, then the defense budget has to continue to rise.
If there is a sport that I'm not particularly fond of, then it is synchronized swimming.
There will certainly be times when Merkel and I will have opposing viewpoints. Just the fact that government work adheres to a different set of prerogatives than a party does makes conflicts unavoidable.
The CDU was a party that united different denominational and ideological currents. If the idea of a rightward shift means that we ignore those roots and only define ourselves as a conservative party, then I am strictly opposed.
My life won't be ruined if I don't achieve all of my political goals.
Spain is an example of how hard it is for a conservative party to campaign for elections if the suspicion is fueled that it wants to go into a coalition with the extreme right.
I am a big fan of the following priorities: first the country, then the party and then the person. I believe that this gives credibility and I want to be credible.
Europe cannot be only the receiver of strategic decisions of others, that is China or the U.S.A. We have to be strong ourselves to shape the global rules.
I believe that we must attach greater importance to the issue of industrial policy in Europe.
The strength of Europe at the end of the day has always been that we stuck together and that demands a great amount - probably even more so than in the past - of discussions, of balancing, of bringing along individual countries.
