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.… — Antonis Samaras Copy Share Image
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… — Antonis Samaras Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We have decreased the salaries of everybody who partakes in politics, from the president to the prime minister to the MPs [members of Parliament].… — Antonis Samaras Copy Share Image
The Greek people today voted for Greece to remain on its European path and in the eurozone. — Antonis Samaras Copy Share Image
I have always believed that this idea of having a nation go through this very painful five or six years of continuous recession with… — Antonis Samaras Copy Share Image
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… — Antonis Samaras Copy Share Image
Very serious mistakes were made by previous governments, and Greece was ready to be abandoned by its partners and to leave the eurozone, which… — Antonis Samaras Copy Share Image
Other countries have access to the markets, whereas Greece does not. Therefore, we have to get liquidity through the ECB. — Antonis Samaras Copy Share Image
There is a mass of immigrants, a million of them without work. We will stop this invasion. — Antonis Samaras Copy Share Image
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