Wolfgang Nowak Quotations

I think that Merkel has solved the principal unsolvable problems inside her own party. The problem for her now is the Social Democrats.

Merkel is permanently underestimated. All her enemies underestimated her, but where are these enemies now? If she was the weak leader that everybody describes, then she never would have gotten to where she is today.

We have to change the widespread idea that the economic miracle, the good times, are coming back. The German dream is over. Other countries are making cars as wonderful as German cars. We aren't better than the others anymore, and we're more expensive.

Everybody in Europe agrees that things can't go on the way they are going.

Everybody knows there has to be change, but none of the political parties are courageous enough to describe a possible future. People know change is needed, but leaders have to explain where we are going. Nobody wants to move if they move blindfolded.

He's not a man for reform or for new beginnings.

For the German left, it's an unbearable truth.