A biography for Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauerhasn’t been written yet.
“I am convinced that we need a stronger Europe that acts in a common agreement on the most crucial issues. For me these are safety, defense, innovation and the aim to maintain our well being.”
“Anything that keeps the U.K. close to the E.U. and best of all, in the E.U., would make me personally very happy.”
“There comes a time in everybody's life when it's no longer enough to point and say he or she should do it, but you have to answer yourself... That's why I put myself at the party's service.”
“We made a clear commitment to NATO's two percent goal. I know that we can't get there from one day to the next, but I'm just as clear on the fact that we must get there in the end.”
“I have read a lot about what I am and who I am: 'mini,' a copy, simply 'more of the same.' Dear delegates, I stand before you as I am and as life made me and I am proud of that.”
“The CDU was a party that united different denominational and ideological currents. If the idea of a rightward shift means that we ignore those roots and only define ourselves as a conservative party, then I am strictly opposed.”
“We will look at the entire immigration question from the protection of outer borders through the asylum procedures to integration, in particular its efficacy.”
“We need strategic strength for our industry, technology and innovation, a sense of security for our European citizens and common foreign and security capabilities to defend our interests.”
“European centralism, European statism, the communitization of sovereign debt, a Europeanization of social systems and of the minimum wage would be the wrong way.”
“I believe that we must attach greater importance to the issue of industrial policy in Europe.”
“It should be clear to everyone what happens when the populists can set the agenda.”
“My life won't be ruined if I don't achieve all of my political goals.”
“But I stand here as my own person, as a mother of three, as a former interior minister, state leader, who has served this land for 18 years and who has learned what it means to lead. And that leadership has more to do with inner strength than how loud you talk.”
“Europe cannot be only the receiver of strategic decisions of others, that is China or the U.S.A. We have to be strong ourselves to shape the global rules.”