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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whose army is not an army of conquest.
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Whoever wants to settle this problem by military means must consider whether it advances the interests of an international alliance of 50 or more nations, many Muslim, or whether it will disturb and perhaps destroy this alliance,
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It establishes the independence of German energy security.
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You can be sure that I will handle with responsibility the things that made you a German chancellor whom people will remember fondly,
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Wherever I go, I encounter a lot of support. The tide is turning,
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We can only point out that not only is Germany sad, but there are signs of solidarity from the whole world,
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Without a new mandate my political program cannot be carried forward,
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It is completely unfair that a bus driver will pay as much as a millionaire,
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We need...to strengthen our European institutions and rigorously further develop the European integration process,
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We Germans know from our own experience that dictators can sometimes only be stopped with force.
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We made clear that we want to create a really substantial new beginning in the relationship between Germany and Iran, ... Of course, we talked about subjects on which we differ, and we made our views clear.
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The problem is so complicated that no-one can give really good advice,
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We need to allow for the return of refugees, to allow for the deployment of international troops to protect the refugees and the population of Kosovo,
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We have a very competent parliament, a council and presidency, ... Europe is not without leadership, and that will become clear.