I think that our society will not allow anyone to establish a dictatorship again in the future. [Mikhail] Saakashvili will fail.

The West didn't see our real situation, and we were blinded by the compliments coming from the Europeans and Americans.

We lived in a totalitarian system for more than 70 years, and our views are still under its influence. Many heads of state in the former Soviet republics believe that they must have total power.

Our prison in Georgia is a very different place from this prison here in Berlin. The conditions there are inhuman.

I made mistakes. My supporters and I failed to prevent a main like [Mikhail] Saakashvili from acquiring absolute power. I should have criticized him earlier on.

I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me.

Georgian society can no longer be divided. I don't want to see our country's best minds leaving the country to try their luck abroad.

He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.

The quail was tender, the potatoes smothered in butter, and the beans roasted in garlic.

It is observed that Failed people can give a successful talk on hardwork.

What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.

I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn.

My New Obsession... is YOUR DESTRUCTION!!

Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.

You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.