Angela Merkel

I chose to pursue a career in physics because there the truth isn't so easily bent.

The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.

When I'm stirring a saucepan, I don't say to myself, 'Now the chancellor is stirring a saucepan.'

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.