Angela Merkel Quotes About Parties

Quotes about: Parties

• From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.

  Angela Merkel

  Party, Issues, Important

  Interview With Bertrand Benoit, Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

• Only our own strength, a strong conservative party, can prevent Red-Red-Green from taking power at the federal level in 2017.

  Angela Merkel

  Strength, Strong, Party

• I'm a person who acknowledges reality. I don't get up every morning and ask myself: What would I do differently if I were chancellor in a black-and-yellow (Christian Democrat and Free Democrat) coalition? The SPD (Social Democratic Party) and the (Christian Democrat and Christian Social) Union stand to weaken their own positions if they don't make this coalition a success. And we both want success.

  Angela Merkel

  Christian, Morning, Party

• I want to see everyone contribute to the overall costs of the system, and with their entire earnings. I'm convinced that an objective discussion will reveal that the differences between the parties, which have been greatly exaggerated in some quarters, aren't that significant after all.

  Angela Merkel

  Party, Differences, Cost

• The campaign in the media takes place in many different formats, such as in citizens forums or town - hall shows. And because we don't have a presidential system in Germany, people vote for parties instead of specific candidates. From the perspective of smaller parties, even one single televised debate is a detested anomaly, because only the lead candidates from the conservatives and the SPD take part.

  Angela Merkel

  Party, Perspective, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• The plurality of German campaign formats, including the televised debates, reflect that we in Germany don't directly vote for a person like in the United States or in France, but for parties. We have a different system.

  Angela Merkel

  Party, Different, Vote

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• I am always on duty, even when I am at party events or on vacation. I don't complain about it, on the contrary. Time management for candidates without government functions is different than it is for me. No matter where I am, I always have to have my duties as chancellor in mind.

  Angela Merkel

  Party, Vacation, Mind

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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