Every leader wants to put his or her imprint on the work that they do, and grow up in specific eras.

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.

Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises.

I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora.

The Greek people do not want to exit the euro, and I believe the Greek people already have shown that they have made major sacrifices to stay within the Eurozone.

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

This is global governance in the making. But we must agree, and agree to a binding commitment.

Despite the deep reforms we are making, traders and speculators have forced interest rates on Greek bonds to record highs.

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together.

For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.

In a country of ideas, consciousness is its' citizen.

Even the most beautiful girl in the world becomes unsightly without depth of character.

Fourteen years without a mother had me believe I could be stoic when I finally met her.

[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.

The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it.

Nothing rectifies out-of-control market failures like a healthy dose of government intervention and mountains of bureaucracy.

As water in a fountain flows as one stream, but falls in many drops divided by time and space, so are the revelations of the one stream of truth.

It's hard - it's difficult to tell when your buzz is at its peak.

Talented people are restless at their core.