Antonis Quotes

#1. There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let's not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop.

Antonis Samaras

#2. I let it come to this, and I can only take responsibility for my own mistakes. Unfortunately, I've made a lot of them.

K.K. Allen

#3. There is a mass of immigrants, a million of them without work. We will stop this invasion.

Antonis Samaras

#4. Today is a new day for the land.

Antonis Samaras

#5. America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Evan Esar

#6. Greece's position in Europe will not be put in doubt.

Antonis Samaras

#7. By 17, I had a whole band that would go in and play. It was called Spontaneous Inventions, after a Bobby McFerrin album.

Brian McKnight

#8. Tomorrow a new era starts for Greece.

Antonis Samaras

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

Antonis Samaras

#10. We are a pivotal part of the European Union. Any destabilization of Greece would totally rock the boat.

Antonis Samaras

#11. What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?

Herman Melville

#12. Illegal immigrants are already a very big problem for us. We are already taking big steps to disallow illegal immigrants from coming in.

Antonis Samaras

#13. I cannot allow a third party to decide on my country's future.

Antonis Samaras

#14. It was a culture that business is something bad - it was a leftist-oriented psychology. We have to break this. We are pro-business.

Antonis Samaras

#15. If the program goes off track again due to recession, this should not become a pretext for the imposition of more austerity measures.

Antonis Samaras

#16. We have decreased the salaries of everybody who partakes in politics, from the president to the prime minister to the MPs [members of Parliament]. We have cut expenditures that have to do with parliament. Everybody knows we are serious.

Antonis Samaras

#17. God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him.

Francis Chan

#18. Our first goal is to stop the recession and start with recovery.

Antonis Samaras

#19. We believe that what they call "Grexit" [a Greek exit from the eurozone] is not an option for us.

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#20. There are many people abroad who want to help, who want to invest. We will give them the red-carpet treatment. We want them to realize that this is a land of opportunity. It always has been so, but we never allowed foreign investment to come into this country.

Antonis Samaras

#21. During the socialist period, the government became too big. That created a crowding-out effect in the private economy, and it gave everybody the need to pay more taxes in order to finance this big government. We are against big government. We want a smaller and more efficient government.

Antonis Samaras

#22. I do not want Greece to become the negative paradigm for the others - i.e., "make sure you follow exactly what we tell you, otherwise you will be like Greece."

Antonis Samaras

#23. She was my friend. Briefly, she was my lover. She was braver than I ever would have been in the moment of death. And I bet she was a hell of a shooting star.

John Scalzi

#24. I am fully aware of the critical moments we face as a country.

Antonis Samaras

#25. You've never felt good. Your suffering protects you. Pain is the ransom you have gladly paid not to be free.

Denis Johnson

#26. I have always believed that this idea of having a nation go through this very painful five or six years of continuous recession with high unemployment would be detrimental for the economy and the society.

Antonis Samaras

#27. If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands.

Gary Player

#28. We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels-local, State and Federal-in ending the pollution of our waters.

Robert Kennedy

#29. The craziest thing about TV directing is I turned in a version, and then they made their final changes - so I don't know what they are. So I'm like, "Ooo, I'm dying to see the final print."

Jake M. Johnson

#30. Use your work to better yourself. You

Donald J. Trump

#31. The best way for someone to govern is to set an example.

Antonis Samaras

#32. Very serious mistakes were made by previous governments, and Greece was ready to be abandoned by its partners and to leave the eurozone, which would have created total catastrophe.

Antonis Samaras

#33. I want to be a homer. I'm getting paid for something that I love to do. I would do it for nothing.

Ron Santo

#34. Other countries have access to the markets, whereas Greece does not. Therefore, we have to get liquidity through the ECB.

Antonis Samaras