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

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

It is important that the Greek people make decisions on important developments.

I have a deep sense of responsibility to my country and Greek people.

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.

We Greeks want change. We know there are problems in our system. We have great potential but we need to manage our country well. Now that hasn't been done over the last decades. And that is, of course, what we are paying for.

Every leader wants to put his or her imprint on the work that they do, and grow up in specific eras.