88 Quotes by George Papandreou

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

We Greeks want change. We know there are problems in our system. We have great potential but we need to manage our country well. Now that hasn't been done over the last decades. And that is, of course, what we are paying for.

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.

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

This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.

Many people have been pontificating, and patronizing, and moralizing, and scapegoating, saying you Greeks, you are the problem. I would say we Greeks have a problem. We are not the problem.

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

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

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.