Alexis Tsipras famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We are committing ourselves to basic protections of our people... We will not permit banks to repossess the homes of working class and middle class people. That's the end of that, it is not negotiable.
-- Alexis Tsipras

#Home #Class #People
Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.
-- Alexis Tsipras

#Democracy #Principles #Austerity
The experience of previous years leads to one conclusion: there is one morality in politics and another for economy. In the years since 1989, the morality of the economy has fully prevailed over the ethics of politics and democracy.
-- Alexis Tsipras

#Years #Democracy #Ethics
Public television goes dark only in two circumstances: when a country is occupied by foreign forces or when there is a coup.
-- Alexis Tsipras

#Country #Dark #Two
The verdict of the Greek people renders the troika a thing of the past for our common European framework.
-- Alexis Tsipras

#Past #People #Greek
Greece gave democracy to the rest of the world.
-- Alexis Tsipras

#Democracy #World #Greece
We will do whatever we could do to keep Greece inside the euro and inside Europe.
-- Alexis Tsipras

#Europe #Euro #Greece
The Greek people not only relate to the ancient traditions, they have fought, they have shed blood, until recently, to defend the values of democracy and freedom.
-- Alexis Tsipras

#Blood #People #Greek
It is our duty to make a leap into the future, and I believe that we will make it.
-- Alexis Tsipras

#Believe #I Believe #Duty
I have underscored my commitment to dialogue and cooperation with our neighboring Turkey, a country that plays an important role for the future of our region. But I still stress that the promotion of this important relations can only take place on the basis of mutual respect without threats of war and questioning of sovereign rights.
-- Alexis Tsipras

#Country #War #Stress
We are proceeding on the basis of common values. We have more to gain from partnership, from promoting our partnership in dealing with the big global challenges. I, therefore, believe that in the near future, not much is going to change in the relations between E.U., Greece and the United States of America. These are relations that were forged under very difficult conditions and rely on the common values of our people.
-- Alexis Tsipras

#Believe #America #People
Real freedom for people can only exist whenever there is security and independence.
-- Alexis Tsipras

#Real #People #Independence
Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships.
-- Alexis Tsipras

#Raw Materials #Unemployment #Dictatorship
The insistence of European leaders to austerity policies keeps the European economy strapped in stagnation.
-- Alexis Tsipras

#Leader #Austerity #Economy
Cooperation and solidarity are necessary requirements in order to bring about the solutions that will once again bring stability to the European integration and bring it back to the track of growth.
-- Alexis Tsipras

#Order #Track #Growth
Slowly but surely, we are decreasing unemployment and we are restoring confidence to the future of the Greek economy.
-- Alexis Tsipras

#Greek #Unemployment #Economy
Greece is not the country which has occupied and illegally invaded and illegally occupied Cyprus.
-- Alexis Tsipras

#Country #Cyprus #Greece
I am interested in making sure that the people of Cyprus will be able to live in a reunited Cyprus, where they are free, where there's a democracy, freedom and Cyprus is a member of the European Union.
-- Alexis Tsipras

#People #Democracy #Cyprus
Those who believe that if someone who would want to radically change the foreign policy of a country such as the United States, which is very difficult, and often although some of us in here who may fear that this may happen, what we should be doing is build bridges, not walls.
-- Alexis Tsipras

#Country #Wall #Believe
Greece is a pillar of peace and security in a region where stabilization is on the growth.
-- Alexis Tsipras

#Growth #Pillars #Peace And Security
I have always taken measures to fight corruption, to attract investment, to create a better context for investment in Greece.
-- Alexis Tsipras

#Taken #Fighting #Corruption
Barack Obama is a president who, when he had to deal with the 2008 economic crisis, has led the American economy on a completely different path than the one that Europe has chosen eight years later.
-- Alexis Tsipras

#Eight #Years #Europe
I will continue to decisively promote reforms that will promote growth, and at the same time, I will continue to negotiate hard in order to avoid any reforms that would undermine growth.
-- Alexis Tsipras

#Order #Growth #Reform
I'm of the opinion that Angela Merkel is a responsible politician, a politician who has a sense of responsibility for Europe and not only for Germany or for the - her political party.
-- Alexis Tsipras

#Party #Responsibility #Europe
I think that the best guarantee for the Cypriot people to feel safe is the potential of a fair and sustainable solution.
-- Alexis Tsipras

#Thinking #People #Guarantees

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