Carl I. Hagen Quotes

Carl Ivar Hagen is a Norwegian politician and former Vice President of the Storting, the Norwegian parliament. He was the leader of the Progress Party from 1978 to 2006, when he stepped down in favour of Siv Jensen. Under his leadership, he was the undisputed leader and, in many ways, personally controlled its ideology and policies.

Hagen has since been regarded by both political scientists, and political colleagues and rivals alike as one of the greatest politicians in Norwegian history for his ability to build a hugely successful party up from scratch and his significant impact on Norwegian politics. He has been described as the first postmodern politician in Norway. While his ideology is classical liberalism with some conservatism, his political style has been described as right-wing populist. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. May 1944
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Famous Carl I. Hagen Quotes

“Immigrants in Norway must learn Norwegian. The same should Spaniards in Spain do, if they want to work with Norwegians.”

Speech at a local Progress Party chapter in Alfaz del Pi, Spain, published in Dagbladet (22 April 2006) http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2006/04/22/464171.html

“The immigration must be limited, that is, first and foremost the foreign cultural one.”

Interviewed in Aftenposten (13 November 2005) http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/politikk/article1155154.ece

“The old SV (Socialist Left Party) were useful idiots for the communists in Moscow. Today's SV are useful idiots for Saddam Hussein.”

In connection with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, published in Aftenposten (23 February 2003) http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/politikk/article495928.ece

“Freedom of speech was set under the respect for the warlord, rapist and female-abuser Muhammad who murdered and accepted rape as a conquest technique.”

In his book Ærlig talt (2007) in a chapter revolving around the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, cited in Vårt Land (15 November 2007) http://www.vl.no/samfunn/article15494.zrm

Carl I. Hagen Quotes

“Had it not been for immigrants, there had been no housing crisis in Oslo.”

Published in TV 2 (25 June 2008) http://www.tv2underholdning.no/moro/politikertabber-2027416.html

“Politicians and bureaucrats are the new upper class in Norway. It is an upper class that is growing by an increasing number of top-paid politicians in municipalities and counties. They let the people suffer, but let themselves go free.”

Speech at the Progress Party national convention of 1987, published in Aftenposten (16 June 2006) http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article1354131.ece

“He is not greedy, he is thick in the head.”

Talking about property tax at the Progress Party national convention of 2010, published in Verdens Gang (25 April 2010) http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/norsk-politikk/artikkel.php?artid=10004220

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