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:  Nun, es bestanden offensichtlich Zwänge, die es mir oder anderen nicht erlaubten, die Entscheidungen zu treffen,  die wir treffen wollten, und ich hatte schon gehofft, dass wir mehr Zeit haben würden, um die Reformen zu machen, die mit dem Defizit zu tun haben, anstatt das Defizit zu reduzieren, das nur das Symptom des Problems war.