Agricultural associations support Merz's doubts about a €15 minimum wage:

As long as this womanly scheming is up there, I won't vote for the CDU anymore!— Wolfgang Grupp expresses his voting decision and views on women's roles in politics during the ARD show with Sandra Maischberger.

"The state is all of us."— Friedrich Merz emphasizes the responsibility and unity of society in his first government statement.

"We do not tell people how they should heat or eat."— Chancellor Friedrich Merz expressed in the ZDF show 'Maybrit Illner' about the freedom of citizens regarding their lifestyle choices.

"I have always internally resisted the idea of initiating prohibition proceedings from the center of the Bundestag."— Friedrich Merz expresses skepticism about the AfD prohibition proceedings in 'Zeit'.

"Illegal immigration to Germany and into the German social systems must be reduced to zero."— Alice Weidel, during her speech in the Bundestag regarding migration.

"Art is not an NGO with an orchestra"— Wolfram Weimer stated this during his appearance in Parliament to emphasize the role of art in society.

"If you want to make sensible politics in the future, for example because you want to reform the debt brake: That can only be done with us."— Jan van Aken, leader of the Left Party, in the talk show Maischberger, emphasizing the necessity of collaboration with the Left for a reform of the debt brake.