We outlined to him the main objectives of this government, which is to reform Greece in a way that has never been tried before and with a determination that was always absent, we also stated categorically that the debt-deflationary cycle in which Greece finds itself is detrimental to all efforts to reform Greece.

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We will compromise and compromise and compromise but we will never be compromised.

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Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire.

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The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why I am launching a cross-border movement for more democracy.

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Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.

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Fences and borders are a sign of weakness.

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Nothing is more boring than talking to people who share my opinion anyway.

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If the British think they can simply detach from the continent and sail towards the USA or China, then they are mistaken.

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I don't believe a Brexit will hurt the City of London as one of the largest financial centers in the world.

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Germany is Europe's heart. But bitterness is widespread. Currently the Germans hate the Greeks and the Greeks hate the Germans. The demonization of the country has to stop if we want a strong Europe. So I am setting a positive example.

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Every sensible banker understands that Greece should not have received any more money: a bankrupt state that can never be expected to repay loans is not a good debtor.

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European Union partners never said European Union partners're going to renege on any promises, European Union partners said that European Union partners promises concern a four-year parliamentary term, european Union partners will be spaced out in an optimal way, in a way that is in tune with our bargaining stance in Europe and also with the fiscal position of the Greek state.

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Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by unbearably painful crises that made most people wish they could recoil into the past.

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I'm the finance minister of a bankrupt country!

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The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years.

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Greece has been, as it always is, the weakest link in the organism and shows the biggest symptoms of disease.

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We've chosen Berlin precisely because nothing can change in a progressive direction without the full participation of Germany in our European endeavors.

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We had been inclined not to call a referendum, it would be very difficult to avoid it being presented mainly by the media as a referendum on the euro. And we didn't want that.

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But, you know, in some sense it's hopeless in any case ... I mean, the new terms are even worse, but the terms that they were being offered before were still not going to work. So, I, you know -- I may have overestimated the competence of the Greek government.

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I was made aware of a certain ‘preference’ by some Eurogroup participants, and assorted ‘partners’, for my... ‘absence’ from its meetings; an idea that the Prime Minister judged to be potentially helpful to him in reaching an agreement.

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The Greek government will make use of all our legal rights.

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