This doesn't make our job any easier.

Believe me, no one in the SPD will allow Merkel to win the elections. There's no chance that we will make this woman, with such radical economic views, chancellor.

If the Union puts conditions on the talks then they will be over very quickly and then there will be a pause until the Union has returned to its senses.

There will not be a 'grand coalition' at any price. The Social Democratic signature of the election manifesto must be clearly recognizable in the coalition agreement.

We found the Chinese room so we can eat rice and wonton soup and spring rolls.

Even the pasta is horrible. I don't know how you can screw up on pasta, but I guess you can.