I will continue to decisively promote reforms that will promote growth, and at the same time, I will continue to negotiate hard in order to avoid any reforms that would undermine growth.

Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.

We will do whatever we could do to keep Greece inside the euro and inside Europe.

Greece gave democracy to the rest of the world.

The verdict of the Greek people renders the troika a thing of the past for our common European framework.

Slowly but surely, we are decreasing unemployment and we are restoring confidence to the future of the Greek economy.

The Greek people not only relate to the ancient traditions, they have fought, they have shed blood, until recently, to defend the values of democracy and freedom.

It is our duty to make a leap into the future, and I believe that we will make it.

Public television goes dark only in two circumstances: when a country is occupied by foreign forces or when there is a coup.

I have always taken measures to fight corruption, to attract investment, to create a better context for investment in Greece.

Barack Obama is a president who, when he had to deal with the 2008 economic crisis, has led the American economy on a completely different path than the one that Europe has chosen eight years later.

Only when people are aware will they start to care.

Not being happy really is my fear.

All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back.

I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a new performance.

Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.

I'm too amused by the way people carry on to give in to despair.

A life of rest and peace in God is good; a life of pain lived in patience is still better; but to have peace in a life of pain is best of all.

Fashion anticipates ... elegance is a state of mind.

With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.