Gerhard Schroeder Stand Quotations

It's not just enough to have the will, it's a question if she's able to stand up to a powerful partner. She hasn't and that's why she's not capable to lead Germany,

My country, Germany, stands ready to support such a process.

Perhaps against that background, it is easier for us to understand exactly what it is the French and the Germans, in their hope and their expectation, what has united us in attempting to achieve the disarmament of Iraq by peaceful means,

This is not about my prerogatives and absolutely not about me as a person, ... It is about my party's prerogative for political leadership and only the party leaders can decide on that. I will accept any decision. I do not want to stand in the way of a development that allows the continuation of the (economic) reforms I initiated and the formation of a stable government in Germany.

to stand by our soldiers in this hour.

You don't seriously believe that as things stand my party would respond to an offer from Frau Merkel in which she says she wants to be chancellor,

What is clear is that our policy will be continued -- the policy of renewing our country in order to make social systems safe from crises and fit for the future, the policy of openness of our country, the policy of self-confidence in foreign policy, ... I stand for this policy.

At the beginning of your second term, the world stands before great challenges: international terrorism, the danger of the spread of weapons of mass destruction, regional crises, but also poverty, climate change and epidemics threaten our security and stability,

I will not stand in the way of anything that would lead to a continuation of the reform processes that I started, and a stable government in Germany,

I can understand when many individuals, in view of the horror of the images that one cannot look at daily, tend toward denial,