Angela Merkel

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

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

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

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

Writing in form is a way of developing your thinking - your thinking along with the tradition. In a way, it's not you alone, it's you in partnership.

I often laugh and say I should go down to the Department of the Interior and register as an endangered species. I'm a gay man over 60 and I'm alive.