Athens Quote by Jean-Claude Juncker

Greece is not a country that can be humiliated. It is a matter of finding an intersection between the reasonable elements of both sides…

— Jean-Claude Juncker

The Greek nation has to be respected. I am not in the camp of those who openly want to humiliate Greece.

— Jean-Claude Juncker

I would caution against fueling cheap populism. First of all, every German who has spent a vacation in Greece knows that the standard of…

— Wolfgang Schauble

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Athens' biggest worry was the sheer recklessness of its own democratic government. A simple majority of the citizenry, urged on and incensed by clever…

— Thucydides

I think that the real tragedy of Greece - aside of the savagery of European bureaucracy, Brussels bureaucracy and northern banks, which was really…

— Noam Chomsky

“Opinion polls showed that two-thirds of Greeks rejected the conditions attached to the bailout, but wanted to stay in the eurozone. Demonstrations spread throughout…

— Michael Hudson

“Eighty years ago, Martin Heidegger extolled Nazi Germany as providing the best hope for rescuing the glorious civilization of the Greeks from the barbarians…

— Noam Chomsky

While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care 'summit,' thousands of Greeks…

— Mark Steyn

It is time to recognise that austerity alone condemns not just Greece but the whole of Europe to the probability of a painful and…

— Charles Dallara

In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.

— Christopher Hitchens

I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in…

— Barack Obama