Hey, you want to hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.

I am not the German Tony Blair. Nor am I the German Bill Clinton. I am Gerhard Schroeder, chancellor of Germany, responsible for Germany. I don't want to be a copy of anyone.

I really enjoy the writing process because I can do it from my house. I can create these characters and take them in the different directions that I want to take them. You have a lot of freedom as a writer.

Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don't want dominance.

We want to change the way we help unemployed people find jobs. We want to be faster and more goal oriented.

Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it.

We want to encourage those who are able to work, no question.

I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy?

When you don't have kids and you're in a Catholic family - one of my sisters had 10 children in 11 years - she's part rabbit - you feel kind of guilty about that. So, I want to do things for other people's children.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.

Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about.

I am not facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will than become urgent.