Mona Sahlin

"If you're a social democrat, then you think it's cool to pay taxes. For me, tax is the finest expression for what politics really is."

"If two equally qualified persons apply for a job at a workplace with few immigrants, the one called Mohammed should get the job."

"But that has nothing to do with ethnicity. Who's by the way Swedish and who's an immigrant?"

"In other words, we have to stop this beaver woman before she's gnawn apart every welfare system we've got in our country."

"I can not figure out what Swedish culture is. I think that's what makes many Swedes jealous of immigrant groups. You have a culture, an identity, a history, something that brings you together. And what do we have? We have Midsummer's Eve and such silly things."