Winfried Kretschmann

Therefore, it makes more sense to invest the money in a building owned by the state.

— Cem Özdemir, Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg, regarding moving into the service villa at Schloss Solitude; he explains the rationale on security and budgetary grounds.

In the end, they'll hang us all up – luckily only on the wall.

— Winfried Kretschmann, at the unveiling of the Mappus portrait in Villa Reitzenstein, 2018

We are sailing into rough weather. Technological progress has melted away, and our core industries are in a historic test.

— Cem Özdemir, from the FAZ article 'Wie Cem Özdemir Baden-Württemberg regieren will'

The costs will then end up with the states and municipalities.

— Winfried Kretschmann (Greens), Minister President of Baden-Württemberg, during the Bundesrat plenary debate.

"My wife is doing well. She has beaten cancer. After five years she is considered cured."— Winfried Kretschmann (the Greens) told the magazine Bunte in an interview about his wife Gerlinde Kretschmann and her cancer diagnosis.

My wife is doing well. She has beaten cancer. After five years she is considered cured.

— Winfried Kretschmann, in a BUNTE interview about his wife's battle with cancer

And I am also hopeful about the tone set by this new government. You can feel the will on both sides to take on the responsibility to lead the country into good, better times.

— Flavia Zaka, in an interview with our editorial team

It is not the smallest common denominator.

— Cem Özdemir, Green party lead negotiator, said after the agreement on the Baden-Württemberg coalition treaty.

Your commitment to openness and tolerance brings us closer to a modern, diverse society.

— Winfried Kretschmann, Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg, at the Baden-Württemberg State Merit Order awards ceremony in Stuttgart's New Palace

The start of this interview in 2018 was a mess. My wife immediately gave me a talking-to.

— CDU candidate Manuel Hagel, about the start of the 2018 interview and his wife's reaction

I wonder why he spent three quarters of an hour developing a voluntarist ideology that in 1848 would have been called utopian socialism, which under present circumstances – at least I think I have reasons to propose this terminology – must be called 'left-wing fascism', Habermas said.

— Habermas, SDS Congress in Hannover, June 1967; remark on Rudi Dutschke and accusations of 'left-wing fascism'