"My name is Mart Laar. I have been twice Prime Minister of Estonia, and I'm not an economist."

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Source : "What Would the World Look Like if Economists Were in Charge?". Interview with Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics Radio, March 24, 2010.

Mart Laar

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“Style is like a muscle: you have to exercise it regularly or you'll lose it.”
“The Wise (Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay; But in their books, as from their graves they rise. Angels--that, side by side, upon our way, Walk with and warn us!”
“My first paying job was guest starring in 'Touched By An Angel' when I was 12. It was very exciting. I couldn't believe you got free food all day and people were so nice to you.”
“Jonny Evans plays sort of international football with Northern Ireland”
“It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.”
“I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.”
“The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.”
“We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally.”

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