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As long as I feel I am doing what I think is right and just for my country, for the Greek people, that is enough for me. Saving Greece from this crisis was the first thing on the agenda. We are now on a much more normalised road.

George Papandreou

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George Papandreou
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 16
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Former Prime Minister Of Greece
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St Paul
Minnesota
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I never thought of politics as a profession.
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We had about 60 regions in Greece and now there are only 13. It'd be like cutting down 50 states to 13 and making it more efficient.
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We in Europe have great capacities.
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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.
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If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.
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Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.
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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.
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There is this concept of politics as a dirty game.
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People would say you look weak if you're not cursing the opposition and driving around in a big black car while always wearing a tie. Above all, to be 'strong' you're always supposed to be giving orders.
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My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.
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When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.
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The real problem in Greece is not cutting taxes, it's making sure that we don't have tax evasion.
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Greece has great strengths, but much of this potential has been wasted. That's because of a wider political system, but also because of a lack of an institutional framework.
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I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today.
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Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.
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I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together.
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Markets are saying pretty much what I'm saying too: that Greece is doing what it can, but that Greece is not going to be able to carry the weight of all of Europe and the other problems that Europe has.
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