Roland Koch Quotes (9 Quotes)

At the moment I would not want to give anyone hope that things might be different than we have agreed.

We are ready to sound out the situation with the Social Democrats. But in order to have formal grand coalition talks in which we would negotiate all the details of legislation, the Social Democrats have to accept that the strongest group decides who will be chancellor. We have taken that decision. And our chancellor will be Angela Merkel.

Schroeder was in office he no longer has a majority, ... He must go.

We have the hardest week ahead of us. That's clear.

There is a leap from sounding each other out to coalition talks. In doing that, it must be clear that the (Christian Democratic) Union has the right to propose the chancellor and will nominate Angela Merkel.

I'm sometimes astonished at how much the German voter can take of this. It's like a powder keg that has no clear trigger.

A lot of my friends are foreigners. The public doesn't like the plan to give 4 million foreigners German passports. They believe that will hinder the efforts to integrate the foreigners.

Before we can move forward to coalition talks, it must be clear that the CDUCSU has the right to the chancellery. The SPD is not yet ready for that.

The Chancellor is seeking, in my view out of an unbelievable mixture of arrogance and overconfidence, to claim he won the election. But the truth is both camps didn't achieve their goals,