Wolfgang Schauble famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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 #Benefits
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 #Firsts #Germany
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
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
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
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
As for the role of France and Germany: French politics is often more self-confident then German politics due to the catastrophe in the first half of the last century. If Berlin and Paris don't agree, then it is difficult to make progress in Europe.
-- Wolfgang Schauble

#Self #Europe #Paris
Reliability is the precondition for trust.
-- Wolfgang Schauble

#Reliability
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
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
If you live beyond your means and have to restructure as a result, you pay a price.
-- Wolfgang Schauble

#Mean #Pay #Results
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We need more personnel within our security agencies.
-- Wolfgang Schauble

#Agency #Needs #Security
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
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
By preventing new conflicts, we avert the causes of radicalization and the risk of terrorist attacks in Europe, including in Germany.
-- Wolfgang Schauble

#Europe #Risk #Germany
I'm a firm believer in the monetary union.
-- Wolfgang Schauble

#Unions #Firm #Believer
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
The Pope was more critical of Christianity than Islam during his visit (to Bavaria). He said on several occasions that the secular world influenced by Christianity must face the idea that it may not be as attractive as it once was. The leaders of other faiths might also be well-advised to admonish their own now and then and not always direct their criticism at others.
-- Wolfgang Schauble

#Ideas #Leader #Islam
In China, it was always said that a double-digit rate of growth would be dangerous. Now, the country has a growth rate of 6.9 percent and suddenly that is supposed to be a catastrophe for the global economy.
-- Wolfgang Schauble

#Country #Growth #Would Be

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