Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire.

We will compromise and compromise and compromise but we will never be compromised.

If the British think they can simply detach from the continent and sail towards the USA or China, then they are mistaken.

Fences and borders are a sign of weakness.

Every sensible banker understands that Greece should not have received any more money: a bankrupt state that can never be expected to repay loans is not a good debtor.

I'm the finance minister of a bankrupt country!

Nothing is more boring than talking to people who share my opinion anyway.

I don't believe a Brexit will hurt the City of London as one of the largest financial centers in the world.

The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why I am launching a cross-border movement for more democracy.

The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years.

Of course you're sorry. The first words out of the mouths of men who are caught doing something they're only too happy to continue until they're caught.

If a man could make the earth heaven to get you, could also make it hell for you if he couldn't get you.

The urge to sing was so strong one day I performed in a club and it was very successful.

An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor.

We each have all the time there is; our mental and moral status is determined by what we do with it.

I'm one Pia Zadora, the same way all the time. That's why I'm happy. It took me a long time to get to the point where could be myself all the time.

Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.

We'll be potters, we'll be painters, we'll be textile designers, we'll be jewelers, we'll be a little this, a little of that. We were going to be the renaissance people [when we were young].

My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.