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.

As a rule, governments monitor people.

[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.

To reject the word of God is to rebel against righteous life.

Until you make a destiny defining decision, you can't move from where you are to the rightful place you should be.

Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near...

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

Maybe deep down inside we were all still in our formative years. Maybe it was never too late for any of us to change.

Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine, Thou wilt not laugh at poets.

Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

I don't know how it is...but you seem to think me something wonderful, and indeed, I am not.

Come my little one, and give me your hand.