As a rule, governments monitor people.

Democracy is the only game in town. The problem is [when] people start to believe that it is not a game worth playing.

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

Bulgaria has been deindustrialized by interest groups who extracted state assets like oil states extract the oil in their ground.

The Church of TED is very optimistic. Bulgarians are some of the most pessimistic in the world. There are the Happy, the Unhappy and the Bulgarians.

Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.

[It's] difficult to engage people in politics when they believe that what really matters is where they personally stand.

Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.

When your sky is covered with the clouds of sadness, smile like the sun and paint your own rainbow.

We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky.

The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.

Everybody knows when you've got a role in a Spike Lee movie, you're gonna blow up. But I happen to be the only person who's had the lead in the two Spike Lee movies nobody saw.

Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead.

For me the only things of interests are those linked to the heart

The place was so British, I wouldn't have been surprised if the mice wore monocles.

Can a spear divine the Eternal Will?

The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back.

Now we all know that Fidel Castro dressed up like Marilyn Monroe and gave JFK a case of syphilis so bad it eventually blew out the back of his head.