The best Quotes by Yanis Varoufakis

Europe resembles a fine riverboat that was launched on a still ocean in 2000. And then the first storm that hit it, in 2008, started creating serious structural problems for it. We started leaking water. And of course, the people in the third class, as in the Titanic, start feeling the drowning effects first.

We approached Athens from the north in early twilight, climbing a hill. When we reached its peak, we were dazzled to look down and see the Acropolis struck by one beam of the setting sun, as if posing for a picture.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you… to make each day count.

I'm the king of the world!

It was the ship of dreams to everyone else. To me, it was a slave ship, taking me back to America in chains. Outwardly, I was everything a well brought up girl should be. Inside, I was screaming.

Jack: "I'm Jack Dawson."
Rose: "Rose DeWitt Bukater."
Jack: "I'm gonna have to get you to write that one down."

They've got you trapped, Rose. And you're gonna die if you don't break free. Maybe not right away because you're strong, but sooner or later that fire that I love about you, Rose… that fire's gonna burn out.

Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was.

Winning that ticket, Rose, was the best thing that ever happened to me… it brought me to you.

I don't know about you, but I intend to write a strongly worded letter to the White Star Line about all of this.

Jack: "Where to, Miss?"
Rose: "To the stars."

Promise me you'll survive. That you won't give up, no matter what happens. No matter how hopeless.

God himself could not sink this ship.

Bruce Ismay: "But this ship can't sink!"
Thomas Andrews: "She's made of iron, sir! I assure you, she can. And she will. It is a mathematical certainty."

Can you exchange one life for another? A caterpillar turns into a butterfly. If a mindless insect can do it, why couldn't I?

A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets. But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson, and that he saved me in every way that a person can be saved. I don't even have a picture of him. He exists now only in my memory.

I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

Its been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America.

America can't do this alone.

Yes, we can.

People of the world - look at Berlin, where a wall came down, a continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one.

How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

I believe in Europe. I am convinced by Europe. Not only as a heritage from the past, but as hope and a vision for the future.

Our final goal must be to create the United States of Europe.

The European Union cannot be compared to the United States. America is a nation, but Europe is not. Europe is a continent of many different nations with their own identities, traditions and languages. Robbing them of their national democracies does not create a European democracy - it destroys democracy in Europe.

We all know that Ukrainians are ready to die for the European perspective. We want them to live with us for the European dream.

Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.