Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. – William E. Gladstone, 1866
If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships – that made me feel that we had to change this country. – George Papandreou

