We have decreased the salaries of everybody who partakes in politics, from the president to the prime minister to the MPs [members of Parliament]. We have cut expenditures that have to do with parliament. Everybody knows we are serious.

We believe that what they call "Grexit" [a Greek exit from the eurozone] is not an option for us.

There are many people abroad who want to help, who want to invest. We will give them the red-carpet treatment. We want them to realize that this is a land of opportunity. It always has been so, but we never allowed foreign investment to come into this country.

We are a pivotal part of the European Union. Any destabilization of Greece would totally rock the boat.

Illegal immigrants are already a very big problem for us. We are already taking big steps to disallow illegal immigrants from coming in.

It was a culture that business is something bad - it was a leftist-oriented psychology. We have to break this. We are pro-business.

I have always believed that this idea of having a nation go through this very painful five or six years of continuous recession with high unemployment would be detrimental for the economy and the society.