Greece
"Λεφτά υπάρχουν" (there is money) said by George Papandreou, Prime Minister of the country from Oct2009 – Nov2011, in a speech a year before the elections that brought him to power and some months after the Sep2008 financial incidents.
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Famous quotes containing the word greece:
“Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)
“When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home,
Let him combat for that of his neighbors;
Let him think of the glories of Greece and of Rome,
And get knocked on the head for his labors.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“It was modesty that invented the word “philosopher” in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneself wise to the actors of the spirit—the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)