Politics also means educating people. It's important to speak openly with our fellow Greeks, to tell them what our problems are and that we have to change something.

We have made major reforms in Greece. When I took over after a landslide victory we had a mandate for change and I knew my major focus would be re-organizing the state.

Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises.

I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora.

The Greek people do not want to exit the euro, and I believe the Greek people already have shown that they have made major sacrifices to stay within the Eurozone.

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

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

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

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

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.

To travel is to discover that human beings everywhere are human beings.

We call it training. Not because we are training for Jiu Jitsu. We are training for life.

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

If we only do what we're familiar with, we might miss what we've been made for.

If you're bullied your entire life you want to be able to just scream to the world 'well that's who I am!'

What I've seen historically is winning is a major aloe. It solves a lot of problems.

Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning.

We only think when we are confronted with problems.

I'm not going to let go of hope, I'm not going to let go of love, I'm not going to let go of God.

Intellectual liberty [is] the right to think right and the right to think wrong. Thought is the means by which we endeavor to arrive at truth.