Mart Laar quotes

Mart Laar is an Estonian politician and historian, renowned for serving as Prime Minister of Estonia twice. His leadership played a significant role in Estonia's post-Soviet economic reforms and transition to a market economy. He is widely respected for advancing democracy and Euro-Atlantic integration in Estonia. Here are 4 of his quotes:

When you grow up in the Soviet society under the communists you heard about the one man who is especially dangerous, especially crazy, and absolutely mad, and which would destroy all the human beings and the economies and so on, and this man was called Milton Friedman.

Mart Laar

The flat tax I got on my first meeting with Margaret Thatcher, who I admired very much and who was a great admirer of Milton Friedman. I met her first when I had been prime minister I think for some months and so on, and when I told her what I am planning to do, she looked at me with these big eyes and said "you are one brave young man.” And then a little bit introduced me on the realities of the Western world on which I was not very well informed. But I didn't stop.

Mart Laar

I was young and crazy, so I didn't know what is possible and what's not, so I did impossible things.

Mart Laar