Helle Thorning-Schmidt Quotes

• Without growth we can’t pay down our debt, and without growth there’s no money for welfare.

  Helle Thorning-Schmidt

• We have the opportunity to change Denmark – that opportunity must be seized.

  Helle Thorning-Schmidt

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

  Helle Thorning-Schmidt

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

  Helle Thorning-Schmidt

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

  Helle Thorning-Schmidt

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

  Helle Thorning-Schmidt

• Of course we have to address the deficit if we win.

  Helle Thorning-Schmidt

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Denmark needs change, Denmark needs to move on and Denmark needs my leadership.

  Helle Thorning-Schmidt

Helle Thorning-Schmidt (11)

Birth:	14th December, 1966
Nationality:	Danish
Profession:	Politician

About

Helle Thorning-Schmidt was born in Rødovre, Copenhagen, Denmark. She is a former Danish politician who was Prime Minister of Denmark from 2011 to 2015, and the Leader of the Social Democrats from 2005 to 2015. She is the first woman to hold either post. She served as a Member of the European Parliament for Denmark from 1999 to 2004 before being elected to the Danish Parliament in 2005. She holds degrees in political science from the University of Copenhagen and a graduate degree from the College of Europe. She became a social democrat during her studies in Belgium and joined the Social Democratic Party in 1993.

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