Helle Thorning-schmidt Quotes

#1. I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years of (Liberal-Conservative) government which has ground to a halt, and get a new government and a new majority in Denmark.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#2. We have the opportunity to change Denmark - that opportunity must be seized.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#3. Christie led the way - with a bulldozer. The governor is blunt, brash, and self-consciously authentic, the antithesis to what turns off today's voters: flip-flopping politicians who speak in poll-tested platitudes. Yes, he's the anti-Romney.

Ron Fournier

#4. I really appreciate the British part of my family.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#5. I know too much about British politics to comment on British politics.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#6. You know, Junpei, everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does.

Haruki Murakami

#7. We are not jumping on the austerity bandwagon. A healthy economy is by far the most important thing for Social Democrats.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#8. Peace and solidarity in Europe is not a law of nature. It requires caring, effort and perseverance

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#9. Without growth we can't pay down our debt, and without growth there's no money for welfare.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#10. We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule ... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#11. Bullies enjoy dark happiness; these are the blank parts that eventually fill their minds with nothingness.

Emily Shanks

#12. Of course we have to address the deficit if we win.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#13. I don't like the idea of fitting into a mould so as to conform. What I like is the danger, the difference - being unpredictable.

Emmanuelle Seigner

#14. The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.

Raymond Chandler

#15. I think my mouth just opens and I spontaneously say things that occur to me.

Helena Bonham Carter

#16. When you mercilessly fire deadly bullets at innocent people taking part in a debate, when you attack the Jewish community, you attack our democracy, we will do everything possible to protect our Jewish community.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#17. For young girls, whom I meet a lot when I travel around the country, it will be a big thing. It will really show them that there's no post in Denmark that a girl can't aspire to.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#18. I'm taking care of the children, doing a bit of cooking and trying to do a bit of DIY around the house. But that's not going too well.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#19. The way that words fit together is always interesting to me. I love words.

Joanna Newsom

#20. So yes, European decision making is not pretty. But it does work.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#21. To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#22. People want to make sacrifices but they don't want to be sacrificed.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#23. We did it. Make no mistake: We have written history. Today there's a change of guards in Denmark.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#24. But what sets Europe apart is we insist on a social model that consists of solidarity, equal opportunity and a certain amount of redistribution.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#25. This is not an election where we hand out gifts. It is an election where we ask everyone to contribute more.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#26. No, a euro referendum will not be part of a government programme if we get the chance to form one,

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#27. Denmark needs change, Denmark needs to move on and Denmark needs my leadership.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt