Mart Laar quotes
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“My name is Mart Laar. I have been twice Prime Minister of Estonia, and I'm not an economist.”
-- Mart LaarSource : "What Would the World Look Like if Economists Were in Charge?". Interview with Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics Radio, March 24, 2010.
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“When you grow up in the Soviet society under the communists you heard about the one man who is especially dangerous, especially crazy, and absolutely mad, and which would destroy all the human beings and the economies and so on, and this man was called Milton Friedman.”
-- Mart LaarSource : Interview with Stephen J. Dubner, 'Freakonomics Radio' podcast, March 24, 2010.
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“The flat tax I got on my first meeting with Margaret Thatcher, who I admired very much and who was a great admirer of Milton Friedman. I met her first when I had been prime minister I think for some months and so on, and when I told her what I am planning to do, she looked at me with these big eyes and said "you are one brave young man." And then a little bit introduced me on the realities of the Western world on which I was not very well informed. But I didn't stop.”
-- Mart LaarSource : Interview with Stephen J. Dubner at "'Freakonomics Radio" podcast, March 24, 2010.
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“The effort of building an ideal society always leads to violence, often to very extensive violence. Because, whether we like it or not, it is not possible to create an ideal society with imperfect people. And this, unfortunately, we are. So the main purpose for Nazism as well as for Communism was to create a 'new person'. In order to make room for it, the world needed to be rid of its non-perfect models.”
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“Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.”
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“I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.”
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Source : "Blair faces crisis over resignations" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2006.
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