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.

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

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

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

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

Today there's a change of guards in Denmark.

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

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

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

I really appreciate the British part of my family.

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

Whoever works knows the grace of labour of life.

In essence, the job of the strategist is to understand and cope with competition. P. 25

A challenge to the designers of the world: Make signs unnecessary.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever.

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.

Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.