Sigmar Gabriel Quotes

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• The production of natural resources in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, stable natural hydrological cycles, fertile soils, a balanced climate and numerous other vital ecosystem services can only be permanently secured through the protection and sustainable use of biological diversity.

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  Ecosystems, Agriculture, Diversity

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• Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.

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  Sound, Management, Conservation

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• Real life is happening outside and not in front of a computer.

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  Real, Computer, Life Is

  "Interview with Opposition Leader Gabriel 'We Have Much to Thank Grass For'". Interview with Konstantin von Hammerstein and Christoph Hickmann, www.spiegel.de. April 16, 2012.

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• I hope that a German foreign policy in 2028 will be part of a European foreign policy, because even the strong country of Germany won't really have a voice in the world if it is not part of a European voice.

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  Country, Strong, World

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• Economically and politically, Germany is extremely stable. There are countries with functioning governments whose institutions don't work. My only concern is about Europe. There's a risk we will run out of time. We have been blessed with a pro-European French president, but we are also approaching the next elections for the European Parliament in 2019, and it will be important for pro-European parties present a credible answer to the anti-Europeans on the left and the right.

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  Country, Running, Party

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• The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense.

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  Ideas, Energy, Nuclear

  "'Butting Heads with the Americans Doesn't Do Any Good'". Interview with Christian Schwärgerl and Markus Feldenkirchen, www.spiegel.de. January 29, 2008.

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• However, I have a low opinion of people with narrow political horizons. Someone who talks about the environment and knows nothing about economics can make as many mistakes as someone who does the opposite.

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  Mistake, Opposites, People

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• Finding the right form of debate regarding Israeli policies will remain a challenge in Germany. Even with every conceivable and warranted criticism, the danger always arises that it will be exploited by those who consciously or unconsciously present anti-Semitism in a new guise.

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  Challenges, Criticism, Germany

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• Besides Germany, the only countries that don't have speed limits are places like Nepal, where road conditions are so bad that a limit would be beside the point. In other words, it's a little crazy that this is even a topic for debate in Germany.

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  Country, Crazy, Would Be

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• A major danger for us Europeans: We must demonstrate that those who have this view of us are mistaken, that we can come to agreement, that we as a community of democratic and free nations are economically successful and are gaining political influence. To do so, we must learn to project our power.

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  Successful, Community, Political

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• My office has a view of low-cost housing, old East German prefabricated apartment buildings. It isn't an attractive view, but it's very helpful, because it reminds me to ask myself, whenever there is a decision to be made, whether the people who live there can afford our decisions.

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  Views, People, Office

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• Maybe it is the last chance for Europe to influence standards for world trade. Next it will be between the US and the Asia-Pacific region.

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  Europe, Lasts, Asia

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• Iran is the only country in the world that's threatening to erase another country from the map as part of a collective genocide.

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  Country, Iran, World

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• The shadow of an exit of Greece from the euro zone takes on ever clearer shape, repeated apparently final attempts to reach a deal are starting to make the whole process look ridiculous. There is an ever greater number of people who feel as if the Greek government is giving them the run-around.

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  Running, Numbers, Government

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• I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as well.

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  Campaigns, Helping, Provocative

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• Climate protection creates sustainability and jobs in the real economy - in construction, in the production of heavy machinery and in systems engineering.

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  Jobs, Real, Engineering

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• We need a greening of globalisation.

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  Needs, Greening, Globalisation

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• Those who reject integration programs in the long term have as little right to stay in Germany as a hate preacher paid from abroad in a mosque.

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  Hate, Long, Germany

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• Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe.

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  Winning, Europe, Creating

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• What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand.

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  Loss, Hands, Risk

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• The task for Germany today is - through its own policies and its own structural reforms, its own investments - to support the EU and the Commission... but every nation has to have the courage to broach such structural reforms and speak clearly about them without making people be afraid.

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  People, Support, Reform

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• Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.

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  Anger, Desire, Climate

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• What could become a danger to world peace is Iran's nuclear program and the country's open threat to annihilate Israel.

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  Country, Israel, Iran

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• If we want to implement climate protection worldwide, countries like Germany, which are capable of developing new technologies, will have to hand over some of their knowledge. We can't expect to have our cake and eat it too.

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  Country, Technology, Hands

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• Madame Merkel knows very well that her conservative Christian Democratic Union or CDU, and the CSU, the Bavarian sister party to the CDU, with which it shares power nationally, must change their European policies. The FDP's nationalist-liberal position on Europe is presumably one of the reasons the attempt failed to form a Jamaica coalition government which would have seen the CDU, FDP and Green Party govern together.

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  Christian, Party, Together

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