My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.

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

Every leader wants to put his or her imprint on the work that they do, and grow up in specific eras.

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

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?

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

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.

I never thought of politics as a profession.

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

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...

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...

I have been supporting the European Union, but we are still a work in progress. We have to become more of a United States of Europe. We should talk about electing a president of the...

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.