Wolfgang Schauble Quotes

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• Reliability is the precondition for trust.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Reliability

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• History shows us a lot of things. It shows why the Lord's Prayer includes the supplication: "And lead us not into temptation." In my day, dissertations were still written by hand, or drummed out with a typewriter. In the past, you had to round up the literature, find the books and find the passages. Nowadays you click on Wikipedia or Google and you have everything you need. This probably makes it more difficult to resist temptation.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Prayer, Book, Past

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If you live beyond your means and have to restructure as a result, you pay a price.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Mean, Pay, Results

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• My job is not to predict everything that might happen in the future, but to address what we can do today.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Jobs, Addresses, Might

  "SPIEGEL Interview with Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble: 'We Have No Relationship to our Diverse Muslim Society'". Interview with Jan Fleischhauer and Holger Stark, www.spiegel.de. September 20, 2006.

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• You can lead a happy life if you recognize that it's limited and completely unpredictable from one moment to the next.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Happy Life, Next, Moments

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The United States lived on borrowed money for too long, inflating its financial sector unnecessarily and neglecting its small and mid-sized industrial companies.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Long, United States, Financial

  "Interview With German Finance Minister Schauble: 'The US Has Lived on Borrowed Money for Too Long'". Interview with Michael Sauga and Peter Muller, www.spiegel.de. November 8, 2010.

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• Our balanced budget has an important psychological function. It is a signal that we can't continue to constantly take on debt.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Important, Debt, Psychological

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• During the centuries-long process of Reformation and Enlightenment, Christian churches had to accept some things they didn't like. Islam will have to do the same; otherwise it isn't part of Europe.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Christian, Europe, Long

  "SPIEGEL Interview with Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble: 'We Have No Relationship to our Diverse Muslim Society'". Interview with Jan Fleischhauer and Holger Stark, www.spiegel.de. September 20, 2006.

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• Germany has always stood for an E.U. of the 27 countries. But in light of Britain's continued resistance to further integration steps, as we saw with the fiscal pact, there are limits to my optimism in this regard. It's quite possible that we will have to create the new institutions for the euro zone first.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Country, Light, Optimism

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• It is true that no member state can be required to make payments to others. But if countries want to offer voluntary assistance, as in the Greek case, this isn't only allowed, but it's also in Germany's interest. We all benefit by ensuring the stability of the euro zone.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Country, Greek, Germany

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• I don't want to change Islam, but if there is to be a European Islam, it must incorporate European values.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Islam, Want, Ifs

  "SPIEGEL Interview with Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble: 'We Have No Relationship to our Diverse Muslim Society'". Interview with Jan Fleischhauer and Holger Stark, www.spiegel.de. September 20, 2006.

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• Europe has grown through crises. Each crisis also presents opportunities, and Europe has emerged stronger from each one. That is the way history unfolds. Europe is sometimes slow, and it reacts sluggishly, but it is capable of finding solutions.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Opportunity, Stronger, Sometimes

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The German export successes are not the result of some sort of currency manipulation, but of the increased competitiveness of companies. The American growth model, on the other hand, is in a deep crisis.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Hands, Growth, Manipulation

  "The US Has Lived on Borrowed Money for Too Long". Interview with Michael Sauga and Peter Müller, www.spiegel.de. November 08, 2010.

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• Most of the mosques were built in our cities in recent years because Turkish citizens in those neighborhoods feel a growing need for places to pray.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Years, Cities, Needs

  "SPIEGEL Interview with Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble: 'We Have No Relationship to our Diverse Muslim Society'". Interview with Jan Fleischhauer and Holger Stark, www.spiegel.de. September 20, 2006.

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• If we want to avoid a clash of cultures - and the jury is still out on whether we can - we'll have to make different cultures and religions compatible with the universal nature of human rights and tolerance. But I can promise you this: Anyone who calls me an infidel at the conference will be in for a fight.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Fighting, Rights, Tolerance

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• As a wheelchair user, you cant move about freely. Thats the only thing that bothers me a little. When Im in the Euro Group in Brussels, colleagues who want to talk to me have to come to me. But I hope they know that this has nothing to do with arrogance.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Moving, Arrogance, Want

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• I don't want to interpret the pope's words, especially as I am one of those horrible people who fell away from the Roman church after Martin Luther.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  People, Church, Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I would caution against fueling cheap populism. First of all, every German who has spent a vacation in Greece knows that the standard of living there isn't higher than it is in Germany. Second, Greece is paying a high price for European assistance.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Vacation, Germany, Firsts

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• If you make the state responsible for everything, you shouldn't be surprised when you end up with a state that bears some resemblance to a dictatorship.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Bears, Responsible, Ends

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It has been clear for some time now that we have to do more for domestic and external security. I am prepared for that.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Clear, Prepared, Has Beens

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Many things can happen very quickly in times of crisis.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Times Of Crisis, Crisis, Happens

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• If there are possibilities for strengthening investments, they will not fail because of us. Emmanuel Macron is right when he says that we need to do more and talk less.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Failing, Investment, Possibility

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We need more personnel within our security agencies.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Agency, Needs, Security

  "SPIEGEL Interview with Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble: 'We Have No Relationship to our Diverse Muslim Society'". Interview with Jan Fleischhauer and Holger Stark, www.spiegel.de. September 20, 2006.

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• We in Germany could, for example, lower taxes. And who is against that? The Social Democrats.
  We could also mobilize more private investments for public infrastructure projects liken the construction of highways. But the Social Democrats also reject this, even though they are at times similar to others abroad in their carping about the surplus. Incidentally, some of the consequences of the good economic situation are strong increases in wages, rising pensions and a strong labor market.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Strong, Construction, Investment

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think we will have to spend more on defense, for infrastructure, for extension of the broadband network and also for domestic security.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Thinking, Defense, Infrastructure

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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