Gerhard Schroeder
Gerhard Schroeder
Gerhard Fritz Kurt Schröder; born 7 April 1944) is a German politician, and served as Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005. As a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, he led a coalition government of the SPD and the Greens. Before becoming a full-time politician, he was a lawyer, and before becoming Chancellor he served as Prime Minister of Lower Saxony. Following the 2005 federal election, which his party lost, after three weeks of negotiations he stood...
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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,
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This pipeline is not aimed against anyone but is aimed at ensuring the security of gas supplies to Europe.
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There was nobody who did not welcome this handover and I do welcome this step again.
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There will be diplomatic relations to North Korea,
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Anyone who wants to defend the European social model must ensure that the German-French relationship remains intact.
anyone escape threat
Anyone who thought they could escape from that threat is wrong,
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and that's why we are together exerting pressure so that Saddam Hussein lets international observers into the country.
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An excuse that one finds the same or similar elsewhere does not apply to us,
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A uniform tax rate of 25 percent means a gigantic redistribution from the bottom to the top,
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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.
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This is not just a German problem, ... It's a problem affecting all of Europe.
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This crime deeply shocked all of Germany and united it in sadness and sympathy,
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This country (the United States) is for the first time internally affected by war -- that is what one has to call it, I think. It is physically...and psychologically deeply wounded and the American government will have to act.
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One has to expect that it (the IAEA) will put it before the Security Council, if Iran doesn't come round,