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.

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

Very serious mistakes were made by previous governments, and Greece was ready to be abandoned by its partners and to leave the eurozone, which would have created total catastrophe.

There are going to be a lot of problems with social cohesion. We are already cutting down everything to the bone. Unless there is light at the end of the tunnel.

There is a mass of immigrants, a million of them without work. We will stop this invasion.

The best way for someone to govern is to set an example.

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