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

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.

An elected government making huge changes with the consent of its people, is being undermined by concentrated powers in unregulated markets-powers which go beyond those of any individual government.

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

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 we were going to default, we would have decided that many months ago. It would be wrong for the Greek economy, it would be wrong for the European economy, it would make things worse in the end. That's why we're taking the pain and making these structural reforms, and we're on target.

This is global governance in the making. But we must agree, and agree to a binding commitment.