We want the whole list on the table, and completely, before the election, ... Anything else would be enormous election deception.

That's an absolute cheek. You won't win this elections this way.

We bear the responsibility to form a stable government with a capability to act.

The personal question has to be cleared up relatively quickly and it has to be accepted by the SPD that Angela Merkel will be chancellor.

I want to make clear that the SPD has to begin to understand that they did not win the election, they lost the vote.

The Social Democrats must begin to accept that they did not win the election, but that they lost the election.

The personal question has to be cleared up relatively quickly, and it has to be accepted . . . that Angela Merkel will be chancellor.

We have a flooding catastrophe, but we also have another catastrophe ... our exceptionally high unemployment.

We are at the bottom of European economic growth, ... Schroeder had four years to fight unemployment and did nothing.