George Papandreou Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von George Papandreou:

We are a country with great potential. We have the political will to make deep changes in a just and equitable way, to put our country back on a development path, to meet the challenges of a new world.

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.

George Papandreou

Today I want to send a message of optismism to all Greeks. Our road, our path, will be more stabilised. Our country will be in a better situation. We will be stronger.

George Papandreou

The unemployed in Greece can get a voucher and choose a training program somewhere in Europe to be retrained during this crisis and when this crisis is over, we make sure that that person hasn't fallen off the cliff and can come back into the labor market with new skills to find a job.

George Papandreou

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.

George Papandreou

Very often, people will come out and say, 'Greeks aren't doing things, Greeks aren't making changes, there's no reform,' That is hogwash. We have made a huge effort. The Greek people have made a huge effort.

George Papandreou

We in Europe have great capacities.

George Papandreou

First of all, Greece won't go down. We're talking about a country that is capable of making change. Europe will not allow the destabilization of the 27-country euro zone. But if there were no action, then markets would start becoming jittery about other countries - and not only Spain and Portugal, but other countries in the European Union.

George Papandreou

Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.

George Papandreou

I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together.

George Papandreou

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

George Papandreou

I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today.

George Papandreou

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

George Papandreou

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

George Papandreou

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

George Papandreou

Already people are saying we do need a change.

George Papandreou

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

George Papandreou

I never thought of politics as a profession.

George Papandreou

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.

George Papandreou

People would say you look weak if you're not cursing the opposition and driving around in a big black car while always wearing a tie. Above all, to be 'strong' you're always supposed to be giving orders.

George Papandreou

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

George Papandreou

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

George Papandreou

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.

George Papandreou

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.

George Papandreou

There is this concept of politics as a dirty game.

George Papandreou

If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.

George Papandreou

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

George Papandreou

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

George Papandreou

We are a country with great potential. We have the political will to make deep changes in a just and equitable way, to put our country back on a development path, to meet the challenges of a new world.

George Papandreou

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

George Papandreou

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

George Papandreou

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

George Papandreou

I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora.

George Papandreou

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

George Papandreou

Markets themselves are looking for stability, and I think we have underestimated the capacity of Europe... to actually create a more stable framework for the whole issue of debt management, bonds, and so on.

George Papandreou

Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a fiscal union. Now steps have been taken to begin that process. And there is more solidarity from nation to nation, and that is a good thing. That has been Greece's gift to Europe.

George Papandreou

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 in the euro zone.

George Papandreou