German Bundesrat

This coalition is functioning, and we will not let ourselves be talked into anything else. We are delivering, and we will show that today as well.

— Fritz Güntzler, finance-policy spokesperson for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, commenting on the coalition and the early retirement measure

The main gain, even economically, lies in the fact that many costs of illnesses will be avoided in the long term.

— Karl Lauterbach, SPD; statement on the health-policy rationale for raising the tobacco tax.

We cannot afford this war any longer.

— Claudia Wittig, deputy leader of the BSW, said in Magdeburg that Germany is the number-one war financier and that the country cannot afford the war any longer.

"If it escalates, I will throw out the entire faction. I have this instrument at my disposal as president."— Bundestagspräsidentin Julia Klöckner, in the podcast 'Meine schwerste Entscheidung' by Funke Medien

I want to remain the Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia.

— Hendrik Wüst, in a ZDF interview the evening before his departure

Then I would say we simply have to admit this, as hard as it is, that all of us together have done a bad job, that we have lost them. And perhaps we are still losing some right now, if I look to Berlin.

— Cem Özdemir (Greens), at a press conference in Stuttgart

I have thought about what is best for the country.

— Parmelin said this about his decision to resign and to leave the field to younger colleagues ahead of the press conference.