Helle Thorning-Schmidt Quotes

The goal of the government is to guarantee the place of Greece in the eurozone against those who want to undermine it.

Our eurozone partners have made it clear: The choice is between staying in or getting out of the eurozone.

I knew that I could never win a referendum in Germany. We would have lost a referendum on the introduction of the euro. That's quite clear. I would have lost, and by seven to three.

Leaving the euro was never up for discussion. It is not up for discussion.

We have no intention of leaving the euro. In no way will we experiment with the future of our country.

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

The Greek people today voted for Greece to remain on its European path and in the eurozone.

I think that France has not made it clear enough recently to our German friends how important it is to introduce euro bonds as a tool against speculation. And how the necessary budget discipline needs to be accompanied by growth.

I am a politician and must gamble with the future.

Every single election in every country has a component of a referendum in it.

The sequester is stupidity on stilts.

I would say that fears of the euro area breaking up are unfounded.

Everyone who votes for us will know that a Northern League government would get rid of the euro and move back to a national currency.

I know there's an online petition to have another referendum [like Brexit] but I think honestly I think if people want to go for it a little further down the line it would be a hiding for nothing.

The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese shops.

Donald Trump actually is a pretty big-government conservative. He doesn't see eye-to-eye with them [the Kochs] on trade.

It's the economy, stupid.

The Government have made it clear that the constitutional treaty will be ratified in the UK only after a referendum.

It is government policy to phase out subsidies to nationalised industries. In line with this, the government hopes that the coal industry will be able to operate without the need for assistance apart from social grants.

I have... submitted the resignation of the government, and I have declared that I will not be a candidate to head the (next) government.

I must confess the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord Vetinari. Outright theft as a policy had never occurred to him.

The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on, which was weapons of mass destruction, as the core reason.

The Government chose to give peace a chance. The Government chose to do something to achieve it.

The high-minded definition of politics is: 'the art or science of government; the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy.' It is only when you keep reading in Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary that you get closer to the truth: 'political activities characterized by artful and often dishonest practices'.

This is a government which is proposing to put at risk our manufacturing industry, to penalise struggling families, to make a tough situation worse for millions of households right around Australia. And for what? To make not a scrap of difference to the environment any time in the next 1000 years.