Greece Quotes

To this day, the United States is profoundly grateful for our friendship and alliance with Greece.

You can't entirely compare between the United States and Greece for a range of reasons, not just because of the size of the economy.

There are enormous resources in Greece.

I will continue to urge creditors to take the steps needed to put Greece on a path towards a durable economic recovery because it's in all of our interests that Greece succeeds.

On behalf of the American people, just let me say that we are proud to count Greece as one of our closest allies and one of our greatest friends.

I've always wanted to come to Greece.

What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core.

Over the last few years, Greece has been in the world spotlight for all the wrong reasons - because of its economic crisis, and then because of the refugees from Syria.

I do think that a return to basic values and to a sense of who Greece - who we are as people can only be for the better in the long run.

Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.

As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill.

Go over to Greece with the Iliad and Odyssey. These have elements of history, and they have non-historical elements. It's very difficult to pull them apart. And I think there's not much reason to.

I'm a total water-baby. I've seen some pristine beaches, from Greece to Goa.

Those who have a lot of money in Greece invest in housing abroad. It's all immoral. The Greek crisis is structural, but also political.

Without Greece, it is not possible to preserve the integrity of the European phenomenon.

The country needs someone with experience and determination to make tough decisions. All the money aside, it is important that Greece restore its reputation.

Greece is a medium-sized country in Europe. Our debt accounts for only 2.5 percent of the total of all members of the euro zone.

One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

Politicians like Prime Minister David Cameron have lost all sense of reality. The people have seen how billions were spent on Greece and Turkey, on deals with Erdogan or for asylum seekers.

How can a parliamentarian or a leader in a country say, on the one hand, that we're going to support Greece but at the same time say that Greeks are lazy?

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.

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

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

Greece has great strengths, but much of this potential has been wasted. That's because of a wider political system, but also because of a lack of an institutional framework.

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

The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.

Greece is the home of the gods; they may have died but their presence still makes itself felt. The gods were of human proportion: they were created out of the human spirit.

Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year.

When the Appollonian strain took over in Greece, they made them into theaters and the original dramas.

I wouldn't like Greece to stay recession. I do think that everything has to be undertaken to reconnect with growth.

Those who are saying that Mario Draghi is in the camp of those trying to push Greece outside the Euroarea, are wrong.

Internationally, ancient Rome and Greece cultures are just so fascinating. I don't think audiences will ever tire of it, because it's such an advanced society.

Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.

The Beauty which old Greece or RomeSung, painted, wrought, lies close at home.

When I traveled through Greece in the '90s, everything [Albert Hoxie] taught me came flooding back and I was able to appreciate the art and culture much more because of him.

Where do we stand today compared to Greece circa 400 B.C.? Today's experiment-driven 'standard model' is not all that dissimilar to Democritus's speculative [sic] atomic theory.

Greece is at a dangerous crossroads. Other countries-Portugal, Ireland, maybe Spain-are coming behind it.

I think it's often discussed that leaving the Euro is an option for Greece. I think this is really not an option.

In the 20 years before Greece end up with the Euro, efforts to improve competitiveness through exchange rate and adjustments resulted only in temporary gains of competitiveness.

I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.

Dealing with Greece's problems will be more difficult if Greece is not a member of the eurozone.

I think the facts reveal that the European partners have taken extraordinary measures to help Greece address its problems.

Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!

Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

We won't get any growth in Greece by just imposing cuts. What I would prefer is a special economic zone for Greece.

To save the banks, you would have to turn the entire Eurozone into Greece.

Ryanair brings lots of different cultures to the beaches of Spain, Greece and Italy, where they couple and copulate in the interests of pan-European peace.

Greece is the mother of democracy and South Africa is its youngest daughter

The EU is mired in deep structural crisis. Greece, Portugal and Ireland cannot survive inside the Euro.

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis's tomb in Heraklion, Greece