Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are.

- Angela Merkel

The times when we could fully count on others are over to a certain extent.

- Angela Merkel

Look forward to the future and look forward to the unknown. Nothing stays the same and people change. One day that hurt and pain will be a distant me…

- Angela Merkel

The full veil is not appropriate for Germans, and should be banned wherever legally possible.

- Angela Merkel

Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

- Angela Merkel

A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

- Angela Merkel

I never underestimated myself. And I never saw anything wrong with ambition.

- Angela Merkel

The fact that people have hijacked it is certainly not something that fills me with great joy. We have to find new ways of addressing people, new way…

- Angela Merkel

I might bend, but I will NEVER break because it's in my nature as a strong woman.

- Angela Merkel