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Whoever votes for the AfD won't have much of a future with us.

— Markus Söder (CSU), in the ARD show Caren Miosga

that we, from one state parliament session to the next, also look at the topics and then decide for ourselves how we will position ourselves on these individual topics

— Sven Schulze (CDU), Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt and head of the CDU faction in the state parliament; told MDR that his party had internally agreed to examine topics from session to session and then make its own decisions about how to act on those topics (in the context of potential cooperation with the AfD).

Russia is putting us to the test and watching closely how we handle this situation. Every sign of wavering, from the Kremlin leadership's point of view, invites them to raise the pressure on Germany further.

— Martin Jäger, head of the BND, during a hearing before the Bundestag's Parliamentary Control Committee

I believe that in the near future it will become clear that the public pressure within the party will be so strong that even the party chairman will see that it is better to step down.

— Peter Pelinka, longtime journalist who advises Zeiler, told Ö1.

Estonia and its Allies retain the full right to respond to this kind of hostile, irresponsible, and dangerous activity.

— Margus Tsahkna, Estonian Foreign Minister, in a statement about Russia's alleged arson attack against Milrem Robotics in Tallinn.

We believe Ferat Koçak's statements, until something else comes to light.

— Sören Pellmann, co-chair of Die Linke's parliamentary group, in Berlin; said he believed Ferat Koçak's statements until anything else comes to light.

"There's nothing to it."— Robert Habeck, directly in the interview with Caren Miosga, addressing rumors of founding a new party with Volker Wissing

I believe the AfD itself does not yet know exactly what it wants

— Dittrich said this to the Funke Media Group newspapers during the initial talks about a possible cooperation in Saxony-Anhalt's state parliament.

They didn't want to look at any alternatives. Quite simply. They basically wanted to push through this deep station at any price.

— Werner Stohler, former SMA chief, explains in the interview that no alternatives were considered and the deep station was pushed through at any price.