“If you put all the European countries together, we are the biggest eco...” — George Papandreou Quote

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

“Markets themselves are looking for stability, and I think we have underestimated the capacity of Europe... to actually create a more stable framework for the whole issue of debt management, bonds, and so on.”

“Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.”

“I think it is incumbent on the rest of us - and I would suggest that includes other European leaders - to pause in what has become a very popular game of telling the Greeks how to run their lives.”

“Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.”

“I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.”