#y

So it won't be a surprise when the Greek default actually happens and we expect it one way or the other to be relatively soon. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#default #expect #greek #happens #other

The ECB's interventions in sovereign bond markets should not be perceived or interpreted as a 'freebie' for governments. They are temporary. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#governments #interpreted #interventions #markets #perceived

The financial crisis in our country is not a passing storm. Given the size of the problems, our national effort will not be completed in 2012. It will take many years and will require the efforts and insistence of several governments. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#country #crisis #effort #efforts #financial

The new co-operation government will do the best it can to address the country's problems, and I believe that with the co-operation of all - and the new government stresses this - and the unity of all, we will achieve that. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#address #believe #best #co-operation #country

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. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#becoming #country #dictatorship #during #family

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. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#deeper #europe #favour #i #i am

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#everyone #his #needs #out #own

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. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#been #begin #defect #did #euro

After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else. ↗

— Lowell Thomas

#age #else #everything #reminds #something

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. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#always #around #big #black #car