Current Quotes by Politicians

Robert Habeck

Jewish communities are warning their members to avoid specific places for their own safety - today, here in Germany, almost 80 years after the Holocaust.

Robert Habeck - November 2023

Annalena Baerbock

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If Putin were to win this war, what sign would that be for other dictators in the world like Xi, like the Chinese President? So therefore Ukraine has to win this war.

Annalena Baerbock - September 2023

Friedrich Merz

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This is the dirty work that Israel is doing – for all of us. Otherwise, we might have continued to endure the terror of this regime for months or years – and possibly even with nuclear weapons.

Friedrich Merz - Juni 2025

Donald Trump

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But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

Konrad Adenauer

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Falling down isn't dangerous or shameful. Not getting up is both.

Konrad Adenauer

Olaf Scholz

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Our world has become more restless and rough; it is changing at a breathtaking pace. We also cope with headwinds. This does not make the challenges of our time any smaller.

Olaf Scholz - December 2023

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

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With clear language and undaunted diplomacy, he has significantly shaped the United States of America and post-war global politics.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier - December 2023

John F. Kennedy

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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

Claudia Roth

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It's not about counting women, it's about making sure that women count!

Claudia Roth - February 2019

Vladimir Lenin

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Vladimir Lenin

Kurt Georg Kiesinger

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Power itself isn't good or bad.

Kurt Georg Kiesinger

Kim Jong Un

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There can be neither today without yesterday nor tomorrow without today.

Kim Jong Un

Winston Churchill

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The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

Angela Merkel

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I believe in Europe. I am convinced by Europe. Not only as a heritage from the past, but as hope and a vision for the future.

Angela Merkel (as Chancellor of Germany) - July 2020, Speech at the European Parliament

Vladimir Putin

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The western Countries lie recklessly, like Goebbels: the more incredible the lie, the faster they will believe in it.

Vladimir Putin - September 2022

Jens Spahn

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Most likely, by the end of this winter, everyone in Germany will be either vaccinated, recovered, or dead.

Jens Spahn - November 2021

Ursula von der Leyen

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We all know that Ukrainians are ready to die for the European perspective. We want them to live with us for the European dream.

Ursula von der Leyen - Juni 2022

Ludwig Erhard

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A compromise is the art of sharing a cake and having everyone think that they got the biggest piece of it.

Ludwig Erhard

Armin Laschet

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We can already say - we're not happy with the outcome of the election.

Armin Laschet - September 2021

Karl Lauterbach

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What we're experiencing with Monkeypox at the moment is not the beginning of a new pandemic.

Karl Lauterbach - May 2022

Nancy Faeser

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Mein Ziel bleibt, in zwei Jahren Ministerpräsidentin von Hessen zu werden, das geht vor.

Nancy Faeser - Juni 2021, über einen möglichen Ministerposten in Berlin

Giorgia Meloni

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The Ukrainian people are defending the values of freedom and democracy on which our civilization is based, and the very foundations of international law.

Giorgia Meloni - Juli 2023

Geert Wilders

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I hate consensus. I like confrontation.

Geert Wilders

Willy Brandt

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We are not chosen - we are elected. We're looking to talk to everyone who care about this democracy.

Willy Brandt

Bill Clinton

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We can't do everything, but we have to do, what we can do.

Bill Clinton

Boris Yeltsin

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We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

Boris Yeltsin

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Putin has started a war because he can't stand individual freedoms of the people. Because Ukraine has become a threat to his dictatorship with their longing for freedom. Dictators fear freedom. That's why he must not be successful with this war, because that would mean that dictators can attack freedom.

Robert Habeck - Juni 2022

We've been lied to a lot by the Kreml for at least one-and-a-half years. So obviously, the whole world looks at the Kreml when a former close confidant of Putin literally falls out of the sky, two months after he launched a rebellion.

Annalena Baerbock - August 2023

A change of government is always a test of how mature a country's democracy is — whether the transition happens smoothly, without grandstanding or ambushes from either side. In every respect, I can say: Germany has once again passed this test.

Friedrich Merz - May 2025

The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon's Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn't do it!

Donald Trump - Juni 2025

Become unpopular first, or people want perceive you seriously.

Konrad Adenauer

Terror will not win, hatred will not prevail. Israel has every right to defend and to protect itself and its citizens. In this dark hour, Germany and France stand firmly by Israel's side.

Olaf Scholz - Oktober 2023

Queen Elizabeth II helped mending the wounds caused by World War II. Britain offered Germany the hand of conciliation. And the hand of conciliation was the hand of the Queen.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier - September 2022

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

John F. Kennedy - June 1963

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Vladimir Lenin

All I say is: China, China, China!

Kurt Georg Kiesinger - September 1969

Our republic is a responsible nuclear state that, as we made clear before, will not use nuclear weapons first unless aggressive hostile forces use nuclear weapons to invade on our sovereignty.

Kim Jong Un

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Winston Churchill (on his 75th birthday)

Democracy isn't just there. We have to work for it together - every day.

Angela Merkel - October 2021, during the 31st Day of German Unity

I find it necessary to support the proposal of the Defence Ministry on partial mobilisation in the Russian Federation to defend our Motherland, and to ensure the safety of our people.

Vladimir Putin - September 2022

We can't keep up this strict lockdown for all of winter. Our society couldn't stand that.

Jens Spahn - February 2021

Europe stands by those in need of protection. All those fleeing Putin's bombs are welcome in Europe.

Ursula von der Leyen - March 2022

It's not enough to charm the people once a year at the ballot box.

Ludwig Erhard

We have to recognize diversity as a chance, not a threat.

Armin Laschet - April 2021

To the women of this nation I want to say that being underestimated is a great advantage, because often they don't see you coming.

Giorgia Meloni - März 2023

We need to stop the Islamisation of the Netherlands.

Geert Wilders - Februar 2008

The best way of predicting the future is shaping it.

Willy Brandt