The CDU, the great party of the center, is back. It is the biggest party in parliament. We will make what we can of this great result.

- Edmund Stoiber

Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!

- Edmund Stoiber

The personal question has to be cleared up relatively quickly and it has to be accepted by the SPD that Angela Merkel will be chancellor.

- Edmund Stoiber