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The country needs someone with experience and determination to make tough decisions. All the money aside, it is important that Greece restore its reputation.

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.

I think the facts reveal that the European partners have taken extraordinary measures to help Greece address its problems.

My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.

Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do.

Those who have a lot of money in Greece invest in housing abroad. It's all immoral. The Greek crisis is structural, but also political.

I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together.

If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.

The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit is extremely difficult.

Without Greece, it is not possible to preserve the integrity of the European phenomenon.