Europe in its infinite wisdom decided to deal with this bankruptcy by loading the largest loan in human history on the weakest of shoulders … What we've been having ever since is a kind of fiscal waterboarding that has turned this nation into a debt colony.

In: Russell Hotten. "Yanis Varoufakis: In his own words" at bbc.co.uk, 3 February 2015; On the austerity terms of Greece's €240bn bailout

Yanis Varoufakis: In his own words