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

— Carl I. Hagen

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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Norwegian politician 1944

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