Matthias Platzeck Quotes (18 Quotes)

Anyone who promises that everything can be made the way it used to be with the recipes of the past betrays in reality the people he claims to represent. We must never participate in this betrayal and we must never allow this betrayal.

There will be no cooperation of any kind with the Left Party.

I will do everything to pay back this gigantic offering of confidence.

We're not going to have four years of election campaigning. On the contrary, we'll limit that to the last few months before the election in 2009.

In the past days I had to come to the toughest decision in my life, which was to follow my doctors' urgent advice to step down from my position as the leader of the Social Democrat Party in Germany.

The SPD has to eliminate the doubts about our unity. We can only convince the public of the force of our ideas if we cooperate and stay together.

We can't continue to look on, when there are entire sectors where there are wages that don't provide a secure livelihood.

We grew up under dictatorship, wanted democracy and were quickly given responsibility. That sharpens the view for risks, but also for chances.

We want negotiations on building a government to move ahead swiftly.

Arbitration is a sensible suggestion which it is worth discussing.

We want the negotiations on forming a new government to proceed quickly.

What we are undertaking here is no love affair, that is very clear.

Social Democrats make mistakes but let's not make the same mistakes twice. And that's why I'm urging all of you Help keep us united, and let's stick together for the tasks that lie in front of us. They'll be hard enough as it is.

This is a clear signal that the Social Democrats are the main party of the center-left and will remain so.

This is a sober marriage of convenience.

This is not a love match but a very sober marriage of convenience.

We want to use these four years to make Germany stronger for the future.

It is not a love relationship, that is clear. But it is appropriate to the circumstances.