22 Sui Generis Quotes From Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

22 Sui Generis Quotes From Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauere

There are similarities with Angela Merkel, there are issues that separate us, and I'm showing that genuinely and authentically and won't create an artificial separation because it has something to do with character and attitude.

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

We have to acknowledge and discuss with citizens that Germany needs to take on more responsibility. One of the questions is, 'Can we keep a functioning international order?'

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

For a long time, perhaps too long, we believed that the world around us would become more and more peaceful, and the order more stable.

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

When Presidents Trump, Putin and Erdogan are mentioned in the same breath here in Germany, as they are all too often, this is a false equivalence that cannot be tolerated.

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

Freedom of opinion is a valuable asset in a democracy.

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

European centralism, European statism, the communitization of sovereign debt, a Europeanization of social systems and of the minimum wage would be the wrong way.

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

You don't restore people's faith in law and order with shrill tones, but with real policies.

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

The CDU is willing to continue to take responsibility for our country. We want to do justice to the government mandate.

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

There comes a time in everybody's life when it's no longer enough to point and say he or she should do it, but you have to answer yourself... That's why I put myself at the party's service.

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

It's hard to pigeonhole me.

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

My husband and I had a very pragmatic agreement right from the start: whoever earns more works full time. So we switched the classic roles.

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

If there is a sport that I'm not particularly fond of, then it is synchronized swimming.

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

There will certainly be times when Merkel and I will have opposing viewpoints. Just the fact that government work adheres to a different set of prerogatives than a party does makes conflicts unavoidable.

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

The CDU was a party that united different denominational and ideological currents. If the idea of a rightward shift means that we ignore those roots and only define ourselves as a conservative party, then I am strictly opposed.

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

My life won't be ruined if I don't achieve all of my political goals.

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

Spain is an example of how hard it is for a conservative party to campaign for elections if the suspicion is fueled that it wants to go into a coalition with the extreme right.

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

I am a big fan of the following priorities: first the country, then the party and then the person. I believe that this gives credibility and I want to be credible.

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

I am convinced that we need a stronger Europe that acts in a common agreement on the most crucial issues. For me these are safety, defense, innovation and the aim to maintain our well being.

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

Europe cannot be only the receiver of strategic decisions of others, that is China or the U.S.A. We have to be strong ourselves to shape the global rules.

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

I believe that we must attach greater importance to the issue of industrial policy in Europe.

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

The strength of Europe at the end of the day has always been that we stuck together and that demands a great amount - probably even more so than in the past - of discussions, of balancing, of bringing along individual countries.

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

We need to be at the forefront of technological development again.

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

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