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

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 couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

God will never leave nor forsake you even at the time of the most difficult trials

The world is a woven basket. Every stitch counts.

I do a lot of rewriting. It’s very painful.

Speaking of Ted Turner The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

Humor is my default mode.

I'll have you know that I am not a failed Third Division footballer. I am a failed Second Division footballer.

Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

specialize in small cast/single reader long fiction so I only compete against other podcasts of novels in that form.

The problem of human suffering is never too much rational thinking, or too high a demand for evidence. But the solutions are. ... Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.

I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.