Edi Rama Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Edi Rama:

I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.
~Edi Rama


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/edi-rama-quotes/#cb1686fb

Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation.
~Edi Rama


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/edi-rama-quotes/#5e494c39

I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.
~Edi Rama


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/edi-rama-quotes/#2c13aa4b

In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.
~Edi Rama


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/edi-rama-quotes/#d2afefc4

I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.
~Edi Rama


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/edi-rama-quotes/#4da8786a

For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of colors in order to revive the hope that had been lost in my city.
~Edi Rama


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/edi-rama-quotes/#79c4fece

Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
~Edi Rama


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/edi-rama-quotes/#2c553c0b

Compromise in colors is grey.
~Edi Rama


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/edi-rama-quotes/#dc80ad76

Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.
~Edi Rama


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/edi-rama-quotes/#30dcaa1a

When people say all politicians are the same, ask yourself if Obama was the same as Bush, if Francois Hollande is the same as Sarkozy. They are not. They are human beings with different views and different visions for the world.
~Edi Rama


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/edi-rama-quotes/#aa583792

I strongly believe in political activity that has to do with choices - and not consensus that sometimes covers problems and doesn't resolve them.
~Edi Rama


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/edi-rama-quotes/#681b0df3

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