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.

- George Papandreou

In the long term, Greece is an important market for us.

- Jochen Zeitz

Britain is less European-minded than Greece.

- Helmut Schmidt

Everyone asks me why someone Turkish is making Greek yogurt. In Greece, it is not called 'Greek yogurt.' Everywhere in the world it is called 'strained yogurt.' But because it was introduced in this country by a Greek company, they called it 'Greek yogurt.'

- Hamdi Ulukaya

The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.

- Gilbert Murray

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.

- George Papandreou

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.

- George Papandreou

We are on a difficult course, on a new Odyssey for Greece, but we know the road to Ithaca and have charted the waters.

- George Papandreou

Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.

- George Papandreou

We have a rise of extremism because we need to give a sense that we are targeting some of the deeper problems in Greece, the injustices.

- George Papandreou

Greece wishes to be part of the eurozone, but it must, of course, go through with the necessary reforms to make this happen.

- Angela Merkel

Greece is a medium-sized country in Europe. Our debt accounts for only 2.5 percent of the total of all members of the euro zone.

- Evangelos Venizelos

Without Greece, it is not possible to preserve the integrity of the European phenomenon.

- Evangelos Venizelos

I'm a total water-baby. I've seen some pristine beaches, from Greece to Goa.

- Esha Gupta

Tomorrow a new era starts for Greece.

- Antonis Samaras

The Greek people today voted for Greece to remain on its European path and in the eurozone.

- Antonis Samaras

What, ultimately, is Greece if it is not the people who live in this country? It's not the mountains and the plains.

- Alexis Tsipras

Greece gave democracy to the rest of the world.

- Alexis Tsipras

Iran also has an extensive missile development programme. Iranian officials declare that the range of their modified Shahab-3 missiles is 2,000km, putting allied countries such as Turkey, Greece, Romania, and Bulgaria within reach.

- Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Greece is not an easy country to do business in.

- Ali Babacan