Georgios A. Papandreou Quotes

• You can theorise about the options you have but in reality they are very specific.

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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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• We’re very proud to be part of the eurozone. But this comes with obligations and it is crucial we show the world we can live up to those obligations.

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• We stand united, facing the big responsibility to change our country into a nation of justice, solidarity, humanity and green development.

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• We are a country with great potential. We have the political will to make deep changes in a just and equitable way, to put our country back on a development path, to meet the challenges of a new world.

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• Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don’t pay their taxes.

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• Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises.

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

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• There is this concept of politics as a dirty game.

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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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• 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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• 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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• It is important that the Greek people make decisions on important developments.

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• If we had a consensus we wouldn’t have to go to a referendum.

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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 polarisation and the barbarism of dictatorships – that made me feel that we had to change this country.

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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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• I never thought of politics as a profession.

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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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• I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora.

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Georgios A. Papandreou (25)

Birth:	16th June, 1952
Nationality:	Greek
Profession:	Politician

About

Georgios A. Papandreou was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA. He is a Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2009 to 2011. He served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1999 to 2004. He was leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement party from February 2004 until March 2012, and President of the Socialist International since January 2006. He was the third member of the Papandreou family to serve as the country's prime minister, following his father Andreas and his grandfather Georgios Papandreou. He earned a B.A. degree in sociology from Amherst College and an M.A. degree in sociology from the London School of Economics. In 2002, he was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws by Amherst College.

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