I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed...

Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.

Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.

We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.

No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.

You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.

I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

I believe politicians should always remain realistic.

I think if someone else other than Reagan, someone less of a hardliner, had been in power then the breakthrough in ending the Cold War would not have happened.

I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.

If something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases hurting stays in the memory.

Give me a life time by the fire, with a book in my hand, nothing more and I will tell you a great story.

Of all calamities this is the greatest.

I still have that new senator smell.

I'm personally a nonbeliever, so I'm struggling with if we really need religion.

Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.

Whatever is, is in its causes just.

Pretty much I don't regret anything that has happened in my life. One thing is I wish I could have spent more time with my mama and my pa.

The object in being on the spiritual path is not to have just a little influx of energy, but to be the energy itself - consciously.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.