We Stand United, Facing The Big Responsibility

First Of All, Greece Won't Go Down. We're Talking About A Country That Is Capable Of Making Change. Europe Will Not Allow The Destabilization Of The 27-country Euro Zone. But If There Were No Action, Then Markets Would Start Becoming Jittery About Other Countries - And Not Only Spain And Portugal, But Other Countries In The European Union.

The Marshall Plan Was After Destruction, And The U.s. Came To Our Help And Obviously This Was Very, Very Important For The Future Of Europe. I Think Now We Have All The Capabilities Of Doing It On Our Own And, In A Sense, We Have To.

Many People Have Been Pontificating, And Patronizing, And Moralizing, And Scapegoating, Saying You Greeks, You Are The Problem. I Would Say We Greeks Have A Problem. We Are Not The Problem.

Countries Are Not Like Financial Markets. Social Change Cannot Be Executed As Swiftly As Credit-default Swaps. You Cannot Sell Short On Social Commitments And Practical Responsibilities.

We Greeks Want Change. We Know There Are Problems In Our System. We Have Great Potential But We Need To Manage Our Country Well. Now That Hasn't Been Done Over The Last Decades. And That Is, Of Course, What We Are Paying For.