If the British think they can simply detach from the continent and sail towards the USA or China, then they are mistaken.

- Yanis Varoufakis

I don't believe a Brexit will hurt the City of London as one of the largest financial centers in the world.

- Yanis Varoufakis

I'm the finance minister of a bankrupt country!

- Yanis Varoufakis

Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire.

- Yanis Varoufakis

The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years.

- Yanis Varoufakis

We will compromise and compromise and compromise but we will never be compromised.

- Yanis Varoufakis

Fences and borders are a sign of weakness.

- Yanis Varoufakis

Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by…

- Yanis Varoufakis

The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why I am laun…

- Yanis Varoufakis