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I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together.

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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Upfront
Greek
Solve
Problems
Problem
Together
Country
Always

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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.
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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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Politics also means educating people. It's important to speak openly with our fellow Greeks, to tell them what our problems are and that we have to change something.
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At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people nurture the belief that they can do things.
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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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I never thought of politics as a profession.
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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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Countries are not like financial markets. Social change cannot be executed as swiftly as credit-default swaps. You cannot sell short on social commitments and practical responsibilities.
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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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There is this concept of politics as a dirty game.
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Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.
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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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There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.
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We in Europe have great capacities.
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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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