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The main experience, I think, is that we have managed: people moving to Norway has made Norway richer, economically, but also our culture has become more rich in many ways.

If you want to decrease housing costs in Norway, the most important thing is to build more.

I think integration in Norway is, by all standards, going relatively well. People are working, taking education, learning the language.

I think integration in Norway is, by all standards, going relatively well. People are working, taking education, learning the language. But, yes, it is a challenge. And democracy and democratic debate has to be open to take that debate openly and not push questions aside.

We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.

If we're not creating an educated and skilled workforce, there is just no conceivable way that were going to be economically competitive.

For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups d'etat, assassinations, famines, massacres and tsunamis, and come home to find that the only new thing in the newspapers was the crossword puzzle.

All of our competitors around the world, every country is investing more in infrastructure as a percentage of their GDP than we are. And down the road our children and grandchildren will have to compete with that more and more.

If you go to the U.S., you've got a huge market, cheap energy, good skills, and pensions are a sensible cost.

You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.