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.

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.

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.

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.

Success is a way of life that has meaning and purpose.

The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

You wanna be big, you lift big weights. You wanna be little, you lift little weights.

Lend your light to the blind. Why should the wickedness of men irritate you, when it is only blindness?

The happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others

A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.

It's so important to embrace what you have because if you don't, that can be the root of very self-destructive habits, which I think people waste a lot of energy on.

For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day."

By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant.