Greece is not the country which has occupied and illegally invaded and illegally occupied Cyprus.

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.

Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

He reminded her of the way male lions look sad, as if their nobility is a terrible weight.

If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.

Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better

Don’t allow negative people to steal your joy. When you lose your joy, you lose your strength.

I didn't grow up with indie rock - I mean, I listened to bands that are considered indie rock, but I think that term is dead and uninteresting.

"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

Unlike religious people, I look at all religions equally.

Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.

You live and die by results, I asked to be judged on that and people have.