I have always said I will be in politics to serve as best as I can and it will take me wherever it will take me.

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.

The real problem in Greece is not cutting taxes, it's making sure that we don't have tax evasion.

The more there is a European solution to a theoretical, but possible, problem in the markets, the less we will have to talk about an I.M.F. solution.

There is this concept of politics as a dirty game.

My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.

Very often, people will come out and say, 'Greeks aren't doing things, Greeks aren't making changes, there's no reform,' That is hogwash. We have made a huge effort. The Greek people have made a huge effort.