Yanis Varoufakis Quotes

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.

Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.

Karl Marx is not a very popular figure any more but once in a while he said something very sensible.

All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

Being a Labour home secretary in the 21st century means fighting a constant battle against both extreme Right and Left.

I would be with those who say the hierarchy in the United States has badly mishandled this whole situation.

Greece is at a crucial crossroads. The choices that are made and the policies that are enforced will have a decisive impact on the wellbeing of Greeks. The way forward will not be easy but the problems can be solved, and will be solved, if there is unity, co-operation and consensus.

As long as I feel I am doing what I think is right and just for my country, for the Greek people, that is enough for me. Saving Greece from this crisis was the first thing on the agenda. We are now on a much more normalised road.

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

Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

How can a parliamentarian or a leader in a country say, on the one hand, that we're going to support Greece but at the same time say that Greeks are lazy?

The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.

I hope Greece is going to remain in the Euro zone.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

The Greek people today voted for Greece to remain on its European path and in the eurozone.

I think there will be no government bankruptcy in Greece.

In fighting the debt crisis, E.U. countries have enhanced co-operation and carried out reform with tremendous courage. This is laudable.

Europe and the euro zone have no reason, rationally, to push Greece out of the euro. But this is a system in which many parties, many countries, many governments, many electorates participate and we could have events which, rationally, are not controllable.

I always thought communism was crap, really.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it.

Every class struggle is a political struggle

Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.

All systems of political administration or governmental machinery are but the reflex of the economic forms which underlie them

the president [Truman], all who seriously believe in a socialized state, every left wing organization in America and the Communist Party.