In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.

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.

Despite the deep reforms we are making, traders and speculators have forced interest rates on Greek bonds to record highs.

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?

The Marshall Plan was after destruction, and the U.S. came to our help and obviously this was very, very important for the future of Europe. I think now we have all the capabilities of doing it on our own and, in a sense, we have to.

If you put all the European countries together, we are the biggest economy in the world.