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.)
“The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome—not by favor of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“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)