Goran Persson
Goran Persson
Hans Göran Perssonserved as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1996 to 2006 and was leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1996 to 2007...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth20 January 1949
CountrySweden
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A nice person who I've learned to appreciate.
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We stand for improved unemployment benefit, they stand for worse. So people can choose.
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It is necessary to try to find new facts shedding light on the fate of Wallenberg, ... The future research must assume that Raoul Wallenberg could have been alive after 1947.
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It is clear today that more energetic and purposeful Swedish actions during the 1940s could have led to a more happy end for Raoul Wallenberg and his family
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We need support, clearly this is primarily from the Left Party and the Green Party, who said so clearly in the election campaign where they stood,
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We need to redouble our effort, additional resources must be mobilized and more forceful measures taken.
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We're not going to be able to promise those born in the 1940s any great tax cuts. That's the first difference this evening.
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We will not replace the United States. It's not possible, ... It's nothing we want to do.
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There must be a political solution in Chechnya ... We will go on expressing concern about the developments in Chechnya,
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A workplace safety plan is naturally something that should be drawn up, that is completely clear, but I didn't have the expertise to foresee that this sort of thing had to be done.
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It was all burned out, with only a skeleton left, ... On the floor there were shoes and boots -- boots just like our own children have. It was only then that you could really understand what happened.
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So far we have seen too little action to be sure about the character of the (negotiating) partner we have in North Korea,
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Should the British fail on that, then it will be terribly difficult for Austria to resolve.
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One might say that after 33 years as head of state this should have been done before, but it should be painted when one is the middle of one's life, so here we are.