Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Jonas Gahr Store

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Norwegian politician Jonas Gahr Store.

Last updated on November 18, 2024.

Jonas Gahr Støre is a Norwegian politician who serves as the 36th prime minister of Norway since 2021 and has been Leader of the Labour Party since 2014. He served under Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2005 to 2012 and as Minister of Health and Care Services from 2012 to 2013. He has also been a Member of the Storting for Oslo since 2009.

Norwegian - Politician | Born: August 25, 1960

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Nature is good at connectivity. The impact of diverse human activities is observed and absorbed throughout nature. Everything is linked. Nature has no problem with coherence. Ecosystems react with their own logic.

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As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability.

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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.'

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Norway will be recognized as an open democracy with the rule of law, with the universal human rights, and with the broad international engagement on the international scene taking upon ourselves responsibilities, because we are a privileged country.

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

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According to the comprehensive Global Burden of Disease project, the leading risk factors for ill health and premature death are linked to lifestyle, what we eat and drink and how much we exercise. Disease prevention does not occur in the hospital. We need the whole of society to be involved.

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Open debate is our strongest tool in standing up to extremism. The far more dangerous avenue is to force extremist ideas underground, where they can fester without competition.

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I think integration in Norway is, by all standards, going relatively well. People are working, taking education, learning the language.

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

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Confronting and undermining the narratives and ideas of extremism must therefore be one of our key tasks. To do this, we must retain the courage of our convictions in the face of extremism.

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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.

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I think integration in Norway is, by all standards, going relatively well. People are working, taking education, learning the language. But, yes, it is a challenge. And democracy and democratic debate has to be open to take that debate openly and not push questions aside.

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Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.

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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.

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

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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.

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I experienced how foreign aid for large-scale vaccination projects helps to save the life of children and thus give a real input to growth and to escaping poverty.

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Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Jonas Gahr Store

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