Let Me Say This On A Personal

For A Few Years, More People Have Been Leaving Our Country Than Entering It. Wherever It Is Possible, We Must Lower The Entry Hurdles For Those Who Bring The Country Forward.

History Has Often Showed Us The Strength Of The Forces That Are Unleashed By The Yearning For Freedom. It Moved People To Overcome Their Fears And Openly Confront Dictators Such As In East Germany And Eastern Europe About 22 Years Ago... The Yearning For Freedom Cannot Be Contained By Walls For Long. It Was This Yearning That Brought Down The Iron Curtain That Divided Germany And Europe, And Indeed The World, Into Two Blocs.

If You've Worked Together With Somebody Very Well, Leave-taking Is Very Difficult. But We Are All Politicians. We All Know That Democracy Lives Off Change. So, In The United States Of America, The Constitution Has Very Clear Stipulations On This. It's A Tough Rule. Eight Years And That's It, Out Goes The President And A New One Comes In.

I Don't Believe You Are Simply Born With The Ambition Of Becoming Chancellor. But If You Want To Make A Difference, If You Enjoy Putting Ideas Into Practice, Then The Post Of Chancellor Has To Be The One Presenting The Biggest Opportunity Of All.

I Want Us To Be Able To Preserve Our Level Of Prosperity. We Must Constantly Remind Ourselves That Germany Has Been Eating Into Its Capital. It Is Only Through Successful Management That We Can Once Again Secure Our Foundation Of Prosperity And Social Security.