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Göran Persson Quotes

born 1949 Sweden

Hans Göran Persson (born 20 January 1949) is a Swedish Social Democratic politician. He was the Prime Minister of Sweden from March 1996 to October 2006 and the leader of the Social Democratic Party from March 1996 to March 2007.

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To me it is enormously striking what political stability means for economic development when you look at the Chinese example.

I'm a feminist, but I don't want to push these issues so hard that I create hostilities in society.

Bush is underestimated in Europe and he is a skilled politician, even though we don't like his policies.

Those who are indebted are not free.

I have after all studied on the chemico-technical programme in high school, so I understand what it's all about.

Maybe I seem a little too clever sometimes... Maybe I'm too well prepared and I may sometimes be regarded as a little fault finding.

Jaha, jag har bråttom. Öpp öpp! Håll er borta.

We want free movement of labour, but not social tourism. There, we must not be naive.

I'm not leading the world's most brilliant cabinet. The ministers don't belong to the most outstanding intellectual elite and we're not particularly beautiful either.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Göran Persson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.