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

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.

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.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

Be a rock, not a pebble.

The easiest way to maintain happiness is to lower your expectations of other people and raise them of yourself!

Nobody knows the trouble you've seen - and nobody wants to.

There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

Don't ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what.

The Democrats often seem like the Not Republican Party, no more and no less.

I play to lift a city, and raise a banner.

Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had