I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as well. Sigmar Gabriel Read Quote
Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe. Sigmar Gabriel Read Quote
However, I have a low opinion of people with narrow political horizons. Someone who talks about the environment and knows nothing about economics can make as many mistakes as someone who does the opposite. Sigmar Gabriel Read Quote
Those who reject integration programs in the long term have as little right to stay in Germany as a hate preacher paid from abroad in a mosque. Sigmar Gabriel Read Quote
What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand. Sigmar Gabriel Read Quote
The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this. Sigmar Gabriel Read Quote
We, the Social Democrats, are convinced that capitalism needs to be tamed a second time. The first time we achieved that in Germany for many decades with the social market economy. That is no longer enough. Now we need to do it in Europe and even globally. Sigmar Gabriel Read Quote
Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost. Sigmar Gabriel Read Quote
If we want to implement climate protection worldwide, countries like Germany, which are capable of developing new technologies, will have to hand over some of their knowledge. We can’t expect to have our cake and eat it too. Sigmar Gabriel Read Quote
The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense. Sigmar Gabriel Read Quote
