Jeroen Dijsselbloem

If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.

As a minister, you shouldn't imagine you know better than the technical experts in your ministry. In the end you're there to apply the political stamp of approval.

If we are going to approach the euro area as a zone with a harsh line in the middle between AAA and non-AAA, between the north and the south, no way are we going to move forward.

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.

With the lessons taken from the financial crisis in 1997, the Republic of Korea has been able to surmount the global economic crisis rather successfully.