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This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.

George Papandreou

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George Papandreou
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 16
Diplomat
Former Prime Minister Of Greece
Politician
Sociologist
St Paul
Minnesota
George Andreas Papandreou
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Tough
Successful
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I would like to see Greece as a case study, an opportunity for Europe to strengthen its coordination of fiscal policy.
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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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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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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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Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises.
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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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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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Many people have been pontificating, and patronizing, and moralizing, and scapegoating, saying you Greeks, you are the problem. I would say we Greeks have a problem. We are not the problem.
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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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It is important that the Greek people make decisions on important developments.
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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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This is global governance in the making. But we must agree, and agree to a binding commitment.
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I never thought of politics as a profession.
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There is this concept of politics as a dirty game.
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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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In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.
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Today I want to send a message of optismism to all Greeks. Our road, our path, will be more stabilised. Our country will be in a better situation. We will be stronger.
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The structures in Europe in a globalising economy need to be modernised, need to be more integrated, need to be stronger.
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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?
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