We're getting our wind farms from Germany, we're getting our nuclear power stations from France.
Under our scheme, Germany would pay more on a slug of its debt, subsidising riskier borrowers.
At different times in the past we've been concerned about whether we could hold our own against Germany, Japan or Mexico.
"We want Germany to be our sherpa on this job training adventure, " he told Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper.
Which is why our enemies in that conflict, Germany and Japan, are now among our strongest allies.
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Lower corporate tax rates prevail among our major competitors in Germany, China and India as well.
But far fewer Americans still recall the even more passionate debate over our stance toward Nazi Germany during the first two years of World War II.
Our alliances with nations like Germany are more important than ever.
For instance, we have a separate one with our quad partners -- Germany, France, the U.K. and the United States -- where Tom Donilon regularly has a secure videoconference with his national security advisor counterparts.
In future quarters, you will see clearly that we will take what we've learned from this acquisition and apply that knowledge towards our joint venture with NEC in Japan and our acquisition of Medion in Germany.
The United States and our partners -- Russia, Germany, France and the United Kingdom -- must do everything we can to support them.
Germany is one of our largest trading partners, and we discussed how to keep our economies growing and create the jobs that our people need.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama and Chancellor Merkel Press Conference
As I said earlier, Germany is one of our strongest allies.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama and Chancellor Merkel Press Conference
It's not popular in Germany to take all of our - a lot of euros here to the U.S. because we don't know it.
But while the UK is debating by how much it will cut research funding, our competitor nations like the US and Germany are increasing their investment.
To understand just how weird a development this is, understand that for Jewish-Americans of a certain age (I'm 42), rooting for Germany isn't how our fathers, grandfathers and Hebrew School teachers raised us.
And together with the United Kingdom, with Russia, China, and Germany, we sat down with our Iranian counterparts.
And - on one measure, at least - our economy is now even more important to Germany than France.
Our modern hamburger seems to have originated in Germany as the Hamburg steak.
In a circle of 600km (372 miles) from Ljubljana, live more than 100 million people - the whole of northern Italy, Switzerland, Austria, and Germany - and that's our opportunity.
Crochet was something that was easy for me to pack up and take while waiting for an appointment or waiting in Frankfurt Germany to catch a bus to our next duty station.
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And then, following our presentation, a very high quality study from Germany on the same topic was presented.
History is replete with examples of the inevitable failure of paper money systems, from our own founding days, to inter-war Germany, to the monetary crisis of 1970s Latin America.
Will America go the way of Germany and France, which have twice our unemployment rate even though the percentage of their citizens in the labor force remains below ours?
Also, America intervened in two world wars when our vital interests were at stake -- stopping Germany from conquering Western Europe in 1917 and stopping Japan and Germany from conquering the world in 1941.
"The precedent that we had in our minds was of international capital markets rather than particular to Germany, " he said.
The Conservative David Amess has called for "an urgent inquiry into the state of our national game" following the 4-1 mauling by Germany, England's heaviest defeat at a World Cup.
The fact that an intervening century has replaced France and Germany with China and India seems an appropriate parable for our times.
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