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Greece is not an easy country to do business in. -- Ali Babacan
I have a deep sense of responsibility to my country and Greek people. -- George Papandreou
I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together. -- George Papandreou
The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone. -- Evangelos Venizelos
Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable! -- Malcolm Turnbull
My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web. -- George Papandreou
What, ultimately, is Greece if it is not the people who live in this country? It's not the mountains and the plains. -- Alexis Tsipras
Greece is a medium-sized country in Europe. Our debt accounts for only 2.5 percent of the total of all members of the euro zone. -- Evangelos Venizelos
The country needs someone with experience and determination to make tough decisions. All the money aside, it is important that Greece restore its reputation. -- Evangelos Venizelos
The Greek debt issue, for example, is such a threat because if that country ever defaulted, it might cause some bank that's 'too big to fail' to actually fail. -- Jerry A. Webman
How can a parliamentarian or a leader in a country say, on the one hand, that we're going to support Greece but at the same time say that Greeks are lazy? -- George Papandreou
Today I want to send a message of optismism to all Greeks. Our road, our path, will be more stabilised. Our country will be in a better situation. We will be stronger. -- George Papandreou
Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night. -- Ted Cruz
Iran also has an extensive missile development programme. Iranian officials declare that the range of their modified Shahab-3 missiles is 2,000km, putting allied countries such as Turkey, Greece, Romania, and Bulgaria within reach. -- Anders Fogh Rasmussen
We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean. -- Thomas Bulfinch
The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath. -- Barry Eichengreen
Everyone asks me why someone Turkish is making Greek yogurt. In Greece, it is not called 'Greek yogurt.' Everywhere in the world it is called 'strained yogurt.' But because it was introduced in this country by a Greek company, they called it 'Greek yogurt.' -- Hamdi Ulukaya
As long as I feel I am doing what I think is right and just for my country, for the Greek people, that is enough for me. Saving Greece from this crisis was the first thing on the agenda. We are now on a much more normalised road. -- George Papandreou
Greece's European neighbors were able step in and bolster the weak foundation on which Greece's free-spending budget was based. It would be difficult for any country, or intergovernmental organization, to rescue an economy the size of the U.S. if investors were ever to lose faith in our bonds because of our enormous debt. -- Douglas Wilder
First of all, Greece won't go down. We're talking about a country that is capable of making change. Europe will not allow the destabilization of the 27-country euro zone. But if there were no action, then markets would start becoming jittery about other countries - and not only Spain and Portugal, but other countries in the European Union. -- George Papandreou
Greece is not the country which has occupied and illegally invaded and illegally occupied Cyprus. -- Alexis Tsipras
Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible ... -- Nancy Mitford
What I liked about Greece was [...] the impressive force of the language itself, unconfined by dictionaries, spoken in the streets, in cafÃ©s and in the country. -- Peter Levi

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