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In the 20 years before Greece end up with the Euro, efforts to improve competitiveness through exchange rate and adjustments resulted only in temporary gains of competitiveness. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#competitiveness #efforts #end #euro #exchange

Our position in Europe is not negotiable. The Greek people will defend it by all means. But participation in the euro involves rules and obligations, which we must consistently meet. Greece belongs to Europe and Europe cannot be envisaged without Greece. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#cannot #consistently #defend #envisaged #euro

The government is determined to continue the process of fiscal consolidation and structural reform in order to secure sound public finances and improve the country's international competitiveness. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#consolidation #continue #country #determined #finances

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

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#choices #come #decades #define #history

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 polarisation and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#been #change #country #dictatorships #difficult

When we think of the state of the economy, we are not thinking in terms of money flow. We are thinking in terms of the effect on everyday lives of people. ↗

— Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

#effect #everyday #everyday lives #flow #lives

It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party. ↗

— Franz von Papen

#hoped #leaders #movement #nation #party

The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things. ↗

— Franz von Papen

#being #conservative #divine #essence #ideology

The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation. ↗

— Franz von Papen

#banner #conscience #demands #external #freedom

I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#any #creative #dull #family #good