Jonas Gahr Store Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“If Hamas wants to be part of the real world, it has to end up accepting Israel's right to exist.”

“In general, it should be in our interest to get organizations out of military activity and into politics.”

“Virtually all modern forms of extremism accuse liberal Western democratic systems of being hypocritical and, ultimately, weak.”

“The notion of 'we' is very important. I think, for any family, any community to be able to say 'we' in this family, it means something. It's dangerous to society when somebody will place himself or herself on the outside of 'we.'”

“This paradigm of the war on terror, connecting all kinds of armed resistance around the globe in one huge ideological framework, as a new ideology at a stage in history when most of the major ideologies are gone, does not reflect the facts on the ground.”

“As a foreign minister, I have to respect the authority to look after the best interest of the child is, as always, in my country like in India, with the parents and the family. But in extreme cases, the situation is open for the child protection authority to intervene.”

“My impression, having been in the Norwegian government for several years, is that taking a child into care is an extremely serious decision which is really taken as a last resort, when the situation warrants it, for the well-being of the children.”