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.

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.

I'm the finance minister of a bankrupt country!

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

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.

The greatest journey of discovery that the human can take is not through the universe or to the remotest location on earth, it is the voyage through the human mind.

While economic development [in Egypt] made a few people rich, it left many more worse off. As people felt less and less free, they also felt less and less provided for.

If I can get a sanitized version of reality, I'll take it.

You can look up "heart" and get 100,000 voices, but slowly the ones at the end are no longer credible, so there will be a selection in Web sites, too.

At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.

I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out.

It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body.

We made it,' he shouted. 'Not bad for a prison break, eh?' 'Good thinking Jake.

[Science is] the desire to know causes.

I would love to someday do a play. I did one when I was very young in San Francisco, where I grew up. A girl can dream.