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I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora.

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.

This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.

The real problem in Greece is not cutting taxes, it's making sure that we don't have tax evasion.

It is important that the Greek people make decisions on important developments.

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.

I would like to see Greece as a case study, an opportunity for Europe to strengthen its coordination of fiscal policy.

If we had a consensus we wouldn't have to go to a referendum.

This is global governance in the making. But we must agree, and agree to a binding commitment.

We have a rise of extremism because we need to give a sense that we are targeting some of the deeper problems in Greece, the injustices.

Despite the deep reforms we are making, traders and speculators have forced interest rates on Greek bonds to record highs.

The more there is a European solution to a theoretical, but possible, problem in the markets, the less we will have to talk about an I.M.F. solution.

If you put all the European countries together, we are the biggest economy in the world.

Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union.

Every leader wants to put his or her imprint on the work that they do, and grow up in specific eras.

I have always said I will be in politics to serve as best as I can and it will take me wherever it will take me.

You can theorise about the options you have but in reality they are very specific.

We had about 60 regions in Greece and now there are only 13. It'd be like cutting down 50 states to 13 and making it more efficient.

Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.

We in Europe have great capacities.

We're very proud to be part of the eurozone. But this comes with obligations and it is crucial we show the world we can live up to those obligations.

The structures in Europe in a globalising economy need to be modernised, need to be more integrated, need to be stronger.

I have a deep sense of responsibility to my country and Greek people.

Already people are saying we do need a change.

Previous governments, particularly the one before I took over, mismanaged the economy quite badly.

I never thought of politics as a profession.

We are on a difficult course, on a new Odyssey for Greece, but we know the road to Ithaca and have charted the waters.

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.

My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.

We stand united, facing the big responsibility to change our country into a nation of justice, solidarity, humanity and green development.

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.