We need to protect our children, and this government is making protecting our children a number one priority.

Whatever is necessary in relation to social media, we will take those steps.

Having the ability to instruct an AI bot to undress, particularly women, online is just so grotesque and disgusting that you'd think it wouldn't be allowed.

You'd think that the platform provider, once they saw it, would say, "Take that down." But that wasn't the case.

We went into battle on Grok, and the platform provider—the first response was not "Get rid of this disgusting feature," it was "Oh, we'll make it a premium service." So you've got to pay for it.

I tell you, and I'm not kidding you, that is the battle we're in, because the response was not "Get rid of it," the response was, "Well, if we restrict access to it to people who can pay for it, is that good enough?" We said, "No, it's not good enough."

In France, nuclear power plants are being built. In China, in the United States — everywhere around us.

Only Germany blows them up. And that despite already having the highest energy prices.

What is that, if not pure ideology, stupidity, or deliberate sabotage?

We must return quickly and urgently to a reliable baseload energy supply.

And that includes re-entering nuclear power and immediately stopping the destruction of our nuclear power plants.

We have simply replaced our energy dependence on Russia with dependence on the United States.

And I am telling you: that is wrong.

One must not continue feeding such a regime, but must force a regime like the Ukrainian one to the negotiating table — as Trump has done.

That should have been Germany’s task as well.

Marco Rubio’s speech in Munich was a pure appeal to “Western culture.”

My favorite part was when he said that American cowboys came from Spain — I believe Mexicans and the descendants of enslaved African peoples would like to have a word on that.

Maduro canceled elections. He was an anti-democratic leader.

That doesn’t mean that we can kidnap a head of state and engage in acts of war just because the nation is below the equator.

We have to understand that when they come for one, they come for us all.

It’s not a coincidence that when there was such a meek reaction to what happened in Venezuela, they immediately turned around and set their sights on Greenland.

What people see in Gaza, when the United States supplies the weapons that are used to do this when we have laws on the books that prohibit the United States from providing weapons in instances of gross human rights violations — people are seeing this entire argument for democracy fall apart.

We have to walk the walk. We can’t let those commitments go.

Holding our friends accountable is just as important as holding adversaries accountable, because it shows that we are pledging our fidelity to a standard — a value of human dignity.

There's a very big difference between whiteness and national—like your actual culture, right?

Whiteness is an imaginary thing. Being German is real. Being Italian is real.

I can say to you with confidence that Trump is deeply committed to your success.

We want this country to do well. It’s in our national interest, especially as long as you’re the Prime Minister and the leader of this country.

It helps America, and obviously it helps you.

Usually, in my time observing geopolitics, when a President tries to engage himself in peacemaking and in ending wars, that's usually applauded.

So this is one of the few times for a lot of different reasons I don't know what they may be, maybe I can speculate what they are, where people actually criticize a President trying to end a war.

Usually, when you're trying to end wars, the international community applauds you. This is one of the few wars I've ever seen where some people in the international community condemn you for trying to help end a war.

What they did with Maduro was wrong. A stupid mistake. I warned them.

At the Americans' suggestion—not on my own, they asked me. I was dragged into this problem.

And I offered them the ideal option. The ideal option. But they went their own way. Donald wanted to please the military.

They accuse Maduro of drug trafficking. But what if it's not about Maduro? It's about oil. This issue could've been solved peacefully.

Moreover, the oil that Venezuela produces—we worked there—is heavy oil, crude oil, and dense oil, and it can be processed only in the United States of America. Couldn't this have been resolved? It could have.

But the main thing is, what's next? Therefore, this is another topic for discussion, my discussion with the leadership of the US. I have a proposal to get out of this situation.

The "Board of Peace" aims to replace the United Nations. Frankly speaking, if there were such an organization that could replace the United Nations, I would be overjoyed. A useless, pointless exercise that the UN conducts.

What issues has the UN resolved recently?

As an example, take Gaza and Palestine. Wasn't a decision made to establish a Palestinian state long ago? Is it resolved or not? Not resolved. There are constant clashes — a constant war.

Not a single conflict has been prevented by the United Nations.

But we are realistic. There is no other organization where all representatives of the world are represented. That is why we do not support the idea that the "Board of Peace" will replace the UN.