Vestager Quotes

#1. It's my impression that investment in Europe is done for the right reasons. Europe is a very good place to do business; it's a large market.

Margrethe Vestager

#2. I'm quite enthusiastic about any kind of gadget and app and feature and things that enable me to have a very convenient lifestyle. We buy our groceries on the Internet; I buy furniture, clothes for myself and my kids.

Margrethe Vestager

#3. I do not have an issue with specific countries or companies; what I'm interested in are schemes which allow for preferential treatment, for selectivity ... If this has to change, it's countries that will have to change this.

Margrethe Vestager

#4. What I have come to realize over the twenty years when I have worked in different roles as a legislator is that no legislation is as good as the enforcement of it.

Margrethe Vestager

#5. Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength.

Stafford Cripps

#6. I think a lot can be said for consolidation, but I think it should be done for the right reasons.

Margrethe Vestager

#7. Data are just summaries of thousands of stories - tell a few of those stories to help make the data meaningful.

Dan Heath

#8. Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, knowing something is more important than fear and taking action in the face of fear.

Roy Bennett

#9. Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.

Jeanne Gang

#10. Being a politician, I know how motivating it can be when the public is outraged.

Margrethe Vestager

#11. I think it is one of the fundamentals, not only of the European Union but also of free trade, that competition is fair.

Margrethe Vestager

#12. Mom, do you have pot hanging from the ceiling?

Tara Sivec

#13. I get all my U.S. politics from 'The Daily Show.'

Margrethe Vestager

#14. In every circumstance, all my life, my mind shows me the possible bad outcome: someone walks down steps, and before I can do anything to head the image off, I see a fall, a catastrophe.

Richard Bausch

#15. The most spectacular UFO incident in Indonesia occurred when during the height of President Sukarno's confrontation against Malaysia, UFOs penetrated a well-defended area in Java for two weeks at a stretch, and each time were welcomed with perhaps the heaviest anti-aircraft barrage in history.

Cael Sanderson