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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I am proud of the people in our country. I am proud of our democratic culture which has shown that it cannot be shaken by media power and media manipulation,
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I feel I have a mandate to ensure that in the next four years there will be a stable government in our country under my leadership, ... There will be no coalition under her leadership with my Social Democrats.
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I consider this suggestion to be highly important ... it must be put on the international political agenda.
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I could name a country but the office which I still hold prevents me from doing so - but everybody knows I mean America,
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I'm in favor of the two main parties coming together.
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I'm proud of the people of our country who weren't shaken by the media's manipulation and the media power,
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In the past eight years, the U.S. has experienced an impressive success story. You can look back in particular on the economic development which is without equal in recent history,
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In my political life, and in my life in general, it has been a privilege for me to meet President Jacques Chirac and to say that he is a friend,
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In meat production everyone has to be able to trace where the product comes from. The marketing chain has to be made transparent,
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The goal clearly must be that people who live here permanently are not foreigners, not guests, but belong to society,
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The German government has made clear that wherever there are justified claims, these claims should be satisfied on legal and also moral grounds,
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The German government and the American administration had different opinions about how Saddam Hussein's regime should be handled,
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The first statements of the new prime minister are very positive, ... I look forward to a meeting in the near future.
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The engagement of NATO is reduced to training and only training, ... We have made clear that we don't want to see German soldiers in Iraq.