I never thought of politics as a profession.

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.

You will always end up in frustration whenever you try to produce outside your purpose.

Silence is so freaking loud

I'm proud of you. You could have run away, but you didn't. That's what most of us do when we have to face a giant.

Light is the task when many share the toil.

Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?

Any piece of good music is in essence a love song.

A survey says that American workers work the first three hours every day just to pay their taxes. So that's why we can't get anything done in the morning: We're government workers.

In New York, the dunk is not the thing. To break somebody down and shoot a J-that's as big as a dunk in New York.

But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.

After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.