Cutting Quote by George Papandreou

Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!

— Malcolm Turnbull

As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time. All these…

— Christine Lagarde

The reason the Greeks don't pay taxes is they don't trust where their taxes are going, because they know these other Greeks are taking…

— Michael Lewis

We won't get any growth in Greece by just imposing cuts. What I would prefer is a special economic zone for Greece.

— Martin Schulz

Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes... to an extent, that's true elsewhere, including…

— Noam Chomsky

Greece's unprecedented fiscal effort, which was more than planned, has triggered much larger contractions of economic activity and the tax base than the original…

— Charles Dallara

In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according to the…

— Jay Leno

We're on our way to Greece, in the hands of a confused, foolish government. It's got to stop. It's got to stop.

— Steve Wynn

There's no more place in the euro zone for well-meaning laxness when dealing with deficits and failings. If the demands on Greece aren't taken…

— Peer Steinbruck

If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.

— Milton Friedman

We cannot simply look to austerity as a strategy and it is incredibly important that the Greek people see improvements in their daily lives…

— Barack Obama

I am personally convinced - and I think the Greek people share this belief in a fundamental way - that we can achieve fiscal…

— Lucas Papademos