Alexis Tsipras Quotations

I don't believe there are heroes or saviours in politics.

Public television goes dark only in two circumstances: when a country is occupied by foreign forces or when there is a coup.

Greece gave democracy to the rest of the world.

The verdict of the Greek people renders the troika a thing of the past for our common European framework.

We will do whatever we could do to keep Greece inside the euro and inside Europe.

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.

Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.

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.

What, ultimately, is Greece if it is not the people who live in this country? It's not the mountains and the plains.

There was a huge lack of freedom in communist regimes, but at least they had humanity at the center of their thinking.

Syriza is what it is: a radical, left-wing party that feels the pulse of the times, knows what's at stake, and is after a wide consensus and unity for political change in Greece. This is something that departs from the narrow limits of the radical left.

The U.S. have printed money; they intend to tax the rich in order to avoid the fiscal cliff. These are things that sees anyone who dares to propose them in Greece and Europe labeled an extremist, when at the same time, it's what Obama does.

A Syriza government will respect Greece's obligation as a eurozone member to maintain a balanced budget and will commit to quantitative targets.