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.'

I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency.