“As long as I feel I am doing what I think is right and just for my country, for the Greek people, that is enough for me. Saving Greece from this crisis was the first thing on the agenda. We are now on a much more normalised road.” PeopleThinkingFeelsFirstsLongCountryEnoughCrisisSavingGreekAgendasGreece Author:George Papandreou
“First of all, Greece won't go down. We're talking about a country that is capable of making change. Europe will not allow the destabilization of the 27-country euro zone. But if there were no action, then markets would start becoming jittery about other countries - and not only Spain and Portugal, but other countries in the European Union.” IfsFirstsCountryActionTalkingBecomingCapableEuropeUnionsZoneOther CountriesSpainGreeceMaking ChangesEuropean UnionEuroPortugal Author:George Papandreou
“How can a parliamentarian or a leader in a country say, on the one hand, that we're going to support Greece but at the same time say that Greeks are lazy?” CountryHandsLeaderSupportGreekLazyGreece Author:George Papandreou
“If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.” IfsFeelsMayMadeCountryFactsPoliticalDifficultStruggleGoneHugeNormalDictatorshipGreeceBarbarismPolitical LifeUpheavalPolarization Author:George Papandreou
“Iran also has an extensive missile development programme. Iranian officials declare that the range of their modified Shahab-3 missiles is 2,000km, putting allied countries such as Turkey, Greece, Romania, and Bulgaria within reach.” CountryDevelopmentRangeOfficialsIranTurkeysGreeceMissilesIranianProgrammesWithin ReachRomaniaBulgaria Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen
“Greece is a medium-sized country in Europe. Our debt accounts for only 2.5 percent of the total of all members of the euro zone.” CountryMembersPercentEuropeAccountsDebtMediumsZoneGreeceEuro Author:Evangelos Venizelos
“Europe and the euro zone have no reason, rationally, to push Greece out of the euro. But this is a system in which many parties, many countries, many governments, many electorates participate and we could have events which, rationally, are not controllable.” CountryReasonGovernmentPartyEventsEuropeZoneNo ReasonGreeceEuroElectorate Author:Evangelos Venizelos
“The country needs someone with experience and determination to make tough decisions. All the money aside, it is important that Greece restore its reputation.” NeedsImportantCountryDecisionToughDeterminationReputationGreeceTough Decisions Author:Evangelos Venizelos
“What I liked about Greece was [...] the impressive force of the language itself, unconfined by dictionaries, spoken in the streets, in cafés and in the country.” CountryLanguageForceStreetsGreeceImpressiveDictionary Author:Peter Levi
“Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kowtow before any United States proconsul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.” CountryStatesGrowsUnitedUnited StatesBasesPreparedBoringCanadaSugarTurkeysMonopolyGreeceSymphonyCubaBulbsFiddlePlantationsNetherlands Author:Andrei Gromyko
“The Aegean sea washes Greece on two sides: first, the side that faces towards the east and stretches from Sunium, towards the north as far as the Thermaean Gulf and Thessaloniceia, a Macedonian city...; and secondly, the side that faces towards the south, I mean the Macedonian country, extending from Thessaloniceia as far as the Strymon.” FirstsMeanTwoCountryFacesSidesCitiesSeaSouthEastGreeceTwo SidesExtending Author:Strabo