George Papandreou Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
George Papandreou quotes and sayings page 3 (72 year old statesman). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 64 we have for him.
“I never thought of politics as a profession.”
“There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.”
“We are on a difficult course, on a new Odyssey for Greece, but we know the road to Ithaca and have charted the waters.”
“When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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?”
“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.”
“I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice.”
“The unemployed in Greece can get a voucher and choose a training program somewhere in Europe to be retrained during this crisis and when this crisis is over, we make sure that that person hasn't fallen off the cliff and can come back into the labor market with new skills to find a job.”
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