Edmund Stoiber quotes:

Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!

The personal question has to be cleared up relatively quickly and it has to be accepted by the SPD that Angela Merkel will be chancellor.

The CDU, the great party of the center, is back. It is the biggest party in parliament. We will make what we can of this great result.