Papandreou Greece Quotes & Sayings

It takes less than a decade for today's luxury to become a universal necessity. — Paul Johnson

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled. — George Papandreou

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. — George Papandreou

Our schools should be the same - environments for safe experimentation, viewing failure as an opportunity for learning rather than a mark of shame. — Salman Khan

Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism. — Yanis Varoufakis

We are on a difficult course, on a new Odyssey for Greece, but we know the road to Ithaca and have charted the waters. — George Papandreou

The unemployed in Greece can get a voucher and choose a training program somewhere in Europe to be retrained during this crisis and when this crisis is over, we make sure that that person hasn't fallen off the cliff and can come back into the labor market with new skills to find a job. — George Papandreou

It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time. — Larry David

Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad. — Klaus Schulze

I would say we are a friend in need and I am sure that the Greek people would very much welcome the choice of the British people to come and enjoy Greece, first of all, but also that would be a sign of support. — George Papandreou

Once a Bond fan, always a Bond fan. — Richard Kiel

My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web. — George Papandreou

We have made major reforms in Greece. When I took over after a landslide victory we had a mandate for change and I knew my major focus would be re-organizing the state. — George Papandreou

Producing came about because I never wanted to be in one of those books, Where Are They Now? — Henry Winkler

Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster. — George Papandreou

Sex was where laurel knew she knew him, and talking was the way she called him to her. — Joshilyn Jackson

The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it — Kurt Vonnegut

We had about 60 regions in Greece and now there are only 13. It'd be like cutting down 50 states to 13 and making it more efficient. — George Papandreou

The real problem in Greece is not cutting taxes, it's making sure that we don't have tax evasion. — George Papandreou

Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it. — Tim Roth

Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother. — Jeffrey Jones

Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a fiscal union. Now steps have been taken to begin that process. And there is more solidarity from nation to nation, and that is a good thing. That has been Greece's gift to Europe. — 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. — George Papandreou

Markets are saying pretty much what I'm saying too: that Greece is doing what it can, but that Greece is not going to be able to carry the weight of all of Europe and the other problems that Europe has. — 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? — 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. — George Papandreou

The first person who contacted us was the assistant to President Eisenhower ... in the White House. — Betty Hill

You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want. — George Harrison

We have a rise of extremism because we need to give a sense that we are targeting some of the deeper problems in Greece, the injustices. — George Papandreou

If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don't have to aim very high. — John Kricfalusi

If we were the problem, it would be very convenient - kick Greece out, everything's fine. What would happen to Spain, what about Portugal, what about Italy, what about the whole of the euro zone? We need more cooperation and less simplification and prejudice. — George Papandreou

Greece has great strengths, but much of this potential has been wasted. That's because of a wider political system, but also because of a lack of an institutional framework. — George Papandreou

Don't be sorry. You could hurt me a thousand different ways and I'd love it every time. — Heather Crews

I would like to see Greece as a case study, an opportunity for Europe to strengthen its coordination of fiscal policy. — George Papandreou