Martin Koopmann Quotations

That could well be a quality which is to his advantage in the grand coalition.

At the chancellery, he is someone who never pushed himself into the foreground or sought the media spotlight but tried to get positions with consensus from the various ministries.

There are several issues on which Washington should not fool itself - a Merkel government would take the same stance on (the) Kyoto (Protocol on global warming) and the environment as well on as the International Criminal Court.

I'm not a friend of that explanation. Yes, tradition and history and all these things play a role, and there is a revolutionary tradition in France and not in Germany, and all that.

But he is certainly a very reliable manager.