"They have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps. ... The recovery is really remarkable. The banking crisis made them more and more determined to pay everything back. ... They were genuinely horrified when the British government asked for them to be treated like a terrorist state. ... Fishing is very buoyant, protected by a 200-mile exclusion zone which they guard quite vigorously. ... And they are not pushing as hard as they used to to get into the eurozone – for obvious reasons."
Cameron Buchanan, isländsk konsul i Edinburgh, i The Scotsman om Islands hantering av finanskrisen.
