Other countries have access to the markets, whereas Greece does not. Therefore, we have to get liquidity through the ECB.

There is a mass of immigrants, a million of them without work. We will stop this invasion.

There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let's not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop.

I am fully aware of the critical moments we face as a country.

Our first goal is to stop the recession and start with recovery.

Greece's position in Europe will not be put in doubt.

Today is a new day for the land.

The best way for someone to govern is to set an example.

We are a pivotal part of the European Union. Any destabilization of Greece would totally rock the boat.

Illegal immigrants are already a very big problem for us. We are already taking big steps to disallow illegal immigrants from coming in.

It was a culture that business is something bad - it was a leftist-oriented psychology. We have to break this. We are pro-business.

You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story.

Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus.

What I can, I do.

I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a popularity contest. That's not the writer's job.

Words divorced from action supporting them are meaningless and hypocritical.

Anyone who contributes to the defense fund of pornographers is a mental moonbeam.

The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.

My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day.

An invisible man can rule the world. Nobody will see him come, nobody will see him go. He can hear every secret, he can rob, rapeand kill.

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.