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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.

— Göran Persson

Jag leder inte världens mest briljanta regering. Statsråden tillhör inte den yppersta intellektuella eliten och särskilt vackra är vi inte heller.

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Source: Said in a speech to Komvux (adult secondary education) students in Norrköping in 2002, according to the Swedish news agency TT.
Source quality: Secondhand citation Quoted from another book or article rather than from the original.

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