Swedish Politician Quotes

Olof Palme

Bertil Ohlin

Fredrik Reinfeldt

Axel Oxenstierna

Hans Blix

Cecilia Malmström

Mona Sahlin

… there are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things…

Former Prime minister Tage Erlander recently spoke in a radio program about how he visited his senile mother at an hospital outside of Karlstad. And she told him; I'm so happy here, I get good care and everyone is so nice to me, but who is paying for all this? Is it you Tage? And Erlander said; no I'm not paying, it's you mum that's paying. You have paid for this your entire life and you have the right to be taken care of when you get old and infirm, not because of charity, not because you have a thick wallet, but because you are a Swedish citizen!

We are deeply concerned about the situation in Russia with regards to human rights. There are several examples of this situation, such as the new law requiring NGOs to register as foreign agents, the law banning homosexual propaganda, problems with the rule of law and arbitrary judicial processes, and court rulings against the opposition.

Cecilia Malmström

No authors propounded the ideas of economic liberalism in Sweden during the 1920s as vigorously as did Cassel and Heckscher, and in addition they certainly helped in no mean degree to give actual policy a liberal stamp during that decade.

The exercise of one coercion always makes another inevitable.

Anders Chydenius

We have a strong economy but we don't have the job creation we need. We want more job creation.

Fredrik Reinfeldt

In other words, we have to stop this beaver woman before she's gnawn apart every welfare system we've got in our country.

Either we, as a society, decide that copyright is the greater value to society, and take active steps to give up private communications as a concept. Either that, or we decide that the ability to communicate in private, without constant monitoring by authorities, has the greater value - in which case copyright will have to give way.

Rickard Falkvinge

Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?

Axel Oxenstierna