I Am Proud Of Being A Greek

If We Were Going To Default, We Would Have Decided That Many Months Ago. It Would Be Wrong For The Greek Economy, It Would Be Wrong For The European Economy, It Would Make Things Worse In The End. That's Why We're Taking The Pain And Making These Structural Reforms, And We're On Target.

I Have Been Supporting The European Union, But We Are Still A Work In Progress. We Have To Become More Of A United States Of Europe. We Should Talk About Electing A President Of The E.u., Rather Than Having One Selected From The Heads Of Government.

Unfortunately, Corruption Is Widespread In Government Agencies And Public Enterprises.

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.

There Is This Concept Of Politics As A Dirty Game. It's A Difficult Game, But It Doesn't Have To Be Dirty. I Think This Is What We Need To Bring To Politics. I Think Politics Around The World Has Very Often Been Captured By Big Interests - 'lobbies' They Call Them In The States.