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 studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.

The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.