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Christine Lagarde

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As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time. All these people in Greece who are trying to escape tax.


— Christine Lagarde


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I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving.


— Christine Lagarde


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I was praised in the U.S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France.


— Christine Lagarde


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I'm very much a believer that it's action that matters much more so than, you know, the flurry of political promises and statements and slogans that are used during political campaigns.


— Christine Lagarde


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The financial industry is a service industry. It should serve others before it serves itself.


— Christine Lagarde


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When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.


— Christine Lagarde


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Lagarde was the first woman ever to become finance minister of a G8 economy and is the first woman to ever head the IMF. Her appointment is the 11th consecutive appointment of a European to head the IMF. " In making general "payback" comments about peripheral eurozone countries having "had a nice time" Lagarde appeared to be unaware that for example Spain had actually been running budget surpluses for three consecutive years going into the financial crisis while Ireland had been running surpluses for five consecutive years going in as her own organisation's data shows.

On 28 June 2011 Christine Lagarde was named as the next MD of the IMF for a five-year term starting on 5 July 2011 replacing Dominique Strauss-Kahn. A noted antitrust and labor lawyer Lagarde became the first female chairman of the international law firm Baker & McKenzie.

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