George Papandreou: Well, obviously there were constraints which didn't allow me or others to make the types of decisions we would have wanted, and obviously I had hoped that we would have the time to make the reforms which would have dealt with the deficit rather than trying to cut the deficit which was the symptom of the problem.
George Papandreou: ja, uppenbarligen fanns det restriktioner som inte lät mig eller andra att fatta de typer av beslut som vi skulle ha velat och bevisligen hade jag hoppats att vi skulle få tid till att genomföra reformerna  som skulle ha tagit tag i underskottet snarare än att ha försökt skära ner underskottet som var symptomet på problemet.