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 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.

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.

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

I am fully aware of the critical moments we face as a country.

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