For young girls, whom I meet a lot when I travel around the country, it will be a big thing. It will really show them that there's no post in Denmark that a girl can't aspire to.

People want to make sacrifices but they don't want to be sacrificed.

We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark.

We have the opportunity to change Denmark - that opportunity must be seized.

We are not jumping on the austerity bandwagon. A healthy economy is by far the most important thing for Social Democrats.

I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years of (Liberal-Conservative) government which has ground to a halt, and get a new government and a new majority in Denmark.

I really appreciate the British part of my family.

But what sets Europe apart is we insist on a social model that consists of solidarity, equal opportunity and a certain amount of redistribution.