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You made me come back on 24 July in order to save the country that was in danger. But if you do not mean to give me the ample majority I need to carry out my mission, then what is the point of having me back?

— Konstantinos Karamanlis

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Greece is plagued by just one single problem: its politics. The misfortune of our people is caused by the unhealthy nature of the political environment and the defective organization of public life.

Hellas has been transformed to an endless bedlam.

In the history of all nations, there are instances in which the crisis of institutions and morals becomes so deep that, in order to save democracy, one should remake it.

In democracies, prime ministers do not go to prison. They return home.

Greece belongs to the West.

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